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heard of this plan and sent two dead pigs and attended the Mass with the other king. Pigafetta reported that both kings participated in the mass. He wrote: "...when the offertory of the mass came, the two kings, went to kiss the cross like us, but they offered nothing, and at the elevation of the body of our Lord they were kneeling like us, and adored our Lord with joined hands." After the Mass, Magellan ordered that the cross be brought with nails and crown in place. Magellan explained that the cross, the nail, and the crown were the signs of his emperor and that he was ordered to plant it in the places that he would reach. Magellan further explained that the cross would be beneficial for their people because once other Spaniards saw this cross, then they would know that they had been in this land and would not cause them troubles, and any person who might be held captives by them would be released. The king concurred and allowed for the cross to be planted. This Mass would go down in history as the first Mass in the Philippines, and the cross would be the famed Magellan's Cross still preserved at present day. After seven days, Magellan and his men decided to move and look for islands where they could acquire more supplies and provisions. They learned of the islands of Ceylon (Leyte), Bohol, and Zzubu (Cebu) and intended to go there. Raia Calambu offered to pilot them in going to Cebu, the largest and the richest of the islands. By April 7th of the same year, Magellan and his men reached the port of Cebu. The king of Cebu, through Magellan's interpreter, demanded that they pay tribute as it was customary, but Magellan refused. Magellan said that he was a captain of a king himself and thus would not pay tribute to other kings. Magellan's interpreter explained to the king of Cebu that Magellan's king was the emperor of a great empire and that it would do them better to make friends with them than to forge enmity. The king of Cebu consulted his council. By the next day, Magellan's men and the king of Cebu, together with other principal men of Cebu, met in an open space. There, the king offered a bit of his blood and demanded that Magellan do the same. Pigafetta recounts: "Then the king said that he was content, and as a greater sign of affection he sent him a little of his blood from his right arm, and wished he should do the like. Our people answered that he would do it. Besides that, he said that all the captains who came to his country had been accustomed to make a present to him, and he to them, and therefore they should ask their captain if he would observe the custom. Our people answered Chapter 2 Content and Contextual Analysis of al
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