First Westerner to the Philippines?

[Spunjer]

To keep this is perspective, this was 49 men with Magellan & 1500 with Lapu Lapu.

bill,

i always question pigafetta's account. kinda remind me of the time me and my friend got beaten up; but you shoulda seen the other guys. there were 50 of them. and they were all football players. oh yeah, they all had ball bats and chains...

seriously, how would you explain such incident to your higher ups, getting killed by a bunch of uncivilized savages, when spain is supposedly the most powerful nation in the world at that time. though we could never prove what really happen; i think it's safe to use some judgement and common sense on some of these so called "documented" claims..