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BENITES, María Jesús. It is commanded and orders: The place of the royal instructions in sixteenth century's travel account. Rev. Esc. Hist. [online]. 2016, vol.15, n.1, pp.00-00. ISSN 1669-9041.

This paper seeks to study a Spanish royal instructions of the 16th-Century written in order to support the territorial inspection and occupation of the Magellan Strait. Especially, it focuses on the discursive features of this documents which supported traveler's observation on ground by defining contents and practices. The premise of the article is that royal instructions were an instrument oriented to systematize natural and geographical data which were crucial in order to define the following steps of the Spanish crown in that Austral territory.

Palabras clave : Royal instruction; Travel account; XVIth century; Strait of Magellan.

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