Welcome back to 100 lies the God Culture teaches about the Philippines. Today's lie once again concerns Antonio Pigafetta's Journal. Tim says that Pigafetta saw and ate Peacocks on the island of Palawan.
As we shall see this is another lie easily disproved by actually reading what Pigafetta wrote and paying attention to where he is during his narration.
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| 100 Clues #20: Philippines Is The Ancient Land of Ophir: Peacocks? - Ophir, Sheba, Tarshish |
2:23 In his journal Pigafetta records, actually twice, the presence of the Palawan peacock. Here he describes a ship from the Philippines. What? Wait. The Philippines had ships? Oh, yes. Mega ships of that day even. We'll get there too don't worry, coming soon. This ship was even ornamented with gold on the stern. Wow! Gee, maybe that was a resource there, just guessing. And on the bow a white and blue flag with a tuft of peacock feathers, yes, peacocks. Later in Palawan Pigafetta describes an elaborate dinner being prepared for the visitors with other birds and fowl and over 30 different kinds of fish. That's quite a dinner. Oh yeah, and there were they were preparing peacock for dinner as well!
Tim has this same testimony in his book The Search for King Solomon's Treasure.
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| The Search for King Solomon's Treasure, pg. 108 |
We find references to this peacock in Pigafetta’s Journal twice.
“The next day the king of that island sent a prahu to the ships; it was very handsome, with its prow and stern ornamented with gold; on the bow fluttered a white and blue flag, with a tuft of peacock’s feathers at the top of the staff” –Pigafetta, 1521 [85]
“Afterwards there came nine men to the governor’s house, sent by the king, with as many large wooden trays, in each of which were ten or twelve china dishes, with the flesh of various animals, such as veal, capons, fowls, peacocks, and others, with various sorts of fish, so that only of flesh there were thirty or thirty-two different viands.”
–Pigafetta, 1521 [85]
The problem here is that, just as with the elephants Pigafetta saw, this happened in Borneo, not Palawan!
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| http://ia600501.us.archive.org/9/items/firstvoyageround00piga/firstvoyageround00piga.pdf |
Pigafetta at no time ever records that he encountered peacocks while in Palawan but in Borneo.
The Bornean peacock is a tiny little thing, a pheasant really.
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bornean_peacock-pheasant |
Likewise the Palawan peacock is also a small pheasant.
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palawan_peacock-pheasant |
Here he is showing off his plumage:
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| https://ferrebeekeeper.wordpress.com/2013/12/16/the-palawan-peacock-pheasant/ |
Does that look like the photo in Tim's video about peacocks in the Philippines? Of course not. That is because he is using a picture of the Indian peafowl.
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peafowl# |
Not only does Tim lie about Pigafetta encountering peacocks in Palawan but he cannot even be bothered to use an actual photo of the Palawan Peacock-pheasant!
This is the third time we have seen Tim lie about Pigafetta's journal. The first lie was that he saw elephants, the second lie was that Pigafetta recorded Samar as being Cattigara, and now this third lie is that Pigafetta encountered peacocks in Palawan. Why does Timothy Jay Schwab continue to lie about the journal of Antonio Pigafetta?
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