THE STORY OF LAPU-LAPU AS TOLD BY PIGAFETTA
According to the accounts of Italian historian Antonio Pigafetta, Ferdinand Magellan attempted to negotiate with Lapu-Lapu to honor Rajah Humabon's authority on the night preceding the battle. Antonio Pigafetta, a survivor of Magellan's expedition, noted, "I believe that never again will such a voyage be attempted." "In the early hours before dawn, sixty of us, accompanied by King Humabon, his son, prominent figures, and twenty to thirty balangay boats, armed with corselets and helmets, arrived at Mactan. Magellan initially sought peaceful compliance from the natives, conveying that recognizing Spanish sovereignty under King Charles and paying tribute would secure friendship. However, Lapu-Lapu's warriors, positioned advantageously with concealed pitfalls and armed with bamboo spears and hardened stakes, were defiant." Pigafetta describes how Magellan, with forty-nine armored men armed with swords, axes, shields, crossbows, and guns, attempted to land