The battle started when Magellan and his men neared the island.
They saw that the army of Lapu-Lapu divided into three groups.
When the warriors saw the foreigners, they started screaming and
rushing towards them. For half an hour the Spaniards kept
shooting their crossbows but to no avail. Lapu-Lapu and his men
eventually came into contact with them as Magellan and his men
came into the island. Pigaffeta wrote that Magellan meant to
scare the warriors by burning their houses. Instead this
provoked them more and they became furious and started attacking
resulting in the death of some of his men. When a poisoned arrow
hit Magellan in the right leg, he gave the order to retreat
slowly but they all ran away except 8 of them including
Pigaffeta who escorted the captain. Lapu-Lapuís men targeted
their legs because they had no armor in that part of their body.
Magellan himself received a blow in the leg from a kampilan(a
long edged Muslim sword) and a spear in the arm. He was able to
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