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BY
H-EZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH
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"Fired by thy fame,* and with his King in ire
To match thy deed, shall Magalhaes aspire.
"Along the regions of the burning zone,
To deepest South he dares the course unknown.
"A land of giants shall his eyes behold,
Of camel strength, surpassing human mould.
"Beneath the Southern star's cold gleam he braves
And stems the whirl of land-surrounded waves.
"Forever moved to the hero's fame,
Those foaming straits shall bear his deathless name."
CAMIOiNS.


* Vasco da Gama.








PREFACE.


I HAVE been asked to write a story of Ferdinand Magellan, the value of whose discoveries has
received a new interpretation in the development of
the South Temperate Zone of America, and in the
ceding of the Philippine Islands to the United States.
The works of Lord Stanley and of Guillemard furnish comprehensive histories of the intrepid discoverer of the South Pacific Ocean and the Philippine
Islands; but there would seem to be room for a
short, picturesque story of Magellan's adventures,
such as might be read by family lamps and in
schools.
To attempt to write such a story is more than
a pleasure, for the study of Magellan reveals a character high above his age; a man unselfish and true,
who was filled with a passion for discovery, and who
sought the welfare of humanity and the glory of
the Cross rather than wealth or fame. Among
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great discoverers he has left a character wellnigh
ideal. The incidents of his life are not only honorable, but usually have the color of chivalry.
His voyages, as pictured by his companion Pigafetta, the historian, give us our first view of the
interesting native inhabitants of the South Temperate Zone and of the Pacific archipelagoes, and his
adventures with the giants of Patagonia and with
the natives of the Ladrone Islands, read almost like
stories of Sinbad the Sailor. The simple record of
his adventures is in itself a storybook.
Magellan, from his usually high and unselfish
character, as well as for the lasting influence of
what he did as shown in the new developments of
civilization, merits a place among household heroes;
and it is in this purpose and spirit I have undertaken a simple sympathetic interpretation of his
most noble and fruitful life. I have tried to put into
the form of a story the events whose harvests now
appear after nearly four hundred years, and to picture truthfully a beautiful and inspiring character.
To the narrative of his lone lantern I have added
some tales of the Philippines.
IH. BUTTERWORTH.


28 WORCESTER STREET, BOSTON, MASS.




CONTENTS.
CHAPTER                                                 PAGE
I.-A STRANGE ROYAL ORDER.1
11.-FRIENDS WITH A PURPOSE..                      9
111.-PRINTCE HENRY THE NAVIGATOR AND VASCO DA GAMA      15
IV.-THE ENTHUSIASTS CARRY THEIR PLANS TO THE KING      24
V.-ABOUT THE HAPPY ITALIAN WHO WISHED TO SEE THE
WORLD.-IBEAUTIFUL SEVILLE!.                      88
VI.-ENEMIES.-ESTEHAN GORMEZ..                    43
VII.-" MAROONED".52
VIII.-"l THE WONDERS OF NEW LANDS."-PIGAFETTA'S TALES OF
HIS ADVENTURES WITII MAGELLAN.-THE STORY OF "THE
FOUNTAIN TREE."-" ST. ELMo's FIRE".60
IX.-PINEAPPLES, POTATOES,9 VERY OLD PEOPLF.70
X.-TIIE FIRST GIANT.-THIE ISLANDS OF GEESE AND GOSLINGS.THlE DANCING GIANTS.76
XI.-CAPTURING A GIANT.-MIAGELLAN'S DECISION.. 84
XII.-THE MUTINY AT PORT JULIAN.-THE STRAITs.-1519       91
XIII.-" TIlE ADMIRAL WAS MAD!"..                   99
xiv.-TIIE PACIFIC —THE DEATH OF THlE GIANTS             103
X.-W ELCOME TO THE PHILIPPINES!..108
XVJ.-THE VISIT OF THE KING. PIGAFETTA VISITS THE KING.116
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CHAPTER                                                PAGE
XVII.-EASTER SUNDAY.-MAGELLAN PLANTS THE CROSS.. 122
XVIII.-CIIRISTIANlTY AND TRADE ESTABLISHE'D.-THE BAPTISM OF
THE QUEEN.129
XIX.-IIALCYON DAYS.136
XX.-TIIE DEATH OF MAGELLAN.139
XXJ.-TIIE SPICE ISLANDS.-WONDERFUL BIRDS.-CLOVES, CINNAMO0N, NUTMEGS, GINGER.-THE SHIPS OVERLOADED.144
XXIJ.-MESQUITA IN PRISON.157
XXIII.-STRANGE STORIEs.-THE WISE OLD WOMEN.-TiHEF WALKING
LEAYES.-THE HAUNTED SANDALWOOD TREES.-THE EMPEROR OF CIIINA.-THE LITTLE BOY AND THE GIANT BIRD 161
XXIY.-THE LOST DAY.173
XXV/.-IN THE CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF VICTORY.-PIGAFETTA  176
SUPPLEMENTAL.182




LIST OF FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS.
FACING
PAGE
Magellan planting the Cross in the Philippine Islands Frontispiece
Lisbon, from the south bank of the Tagus....  4
Ferdinand  Magellan.......            6
"He is a renegade. His arms must come down!"..  18
Barcelona....34
Night after night the ships followed Magellan's lantern.. 55
Interior of the Alcazar of Seville....   60
The dancing giant.....                80
Mount Mayon, on the Island of Luzon... 125
The death of Magellan.....                  142
Pigafetta presenting the history of the voyage to the King of
Spain.......179
Map of the Philippine Islands.... 187
Native houses in Manila.....             190
Hong Kong......202
Iloilo...........  206
Boats on the River Pasig........          218




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THE STORY OF MAGELLAN.
CHAPTER I.
A STRANGE ROYAL ORDER.
I AM to tell the story of a man who had faith in
himself.
The clouds and the ocean bear his name. Lord
Stanley has called him "the greatest of ancient and
modern navigators."
That was a strange royal order, indeed, which
Dom Manoel, King of Portugal, issued in the early
part of the fifteenth century. It was in effect: " Go
to the house of Hernando de Magallanes, in Sabrosa,
and tear from it the coat of arms.  Hernando de
Magallanes (Ferdinand Magellan) has transferred
his allegiance to the King of Spain."
The people of the mountain district must have
been very much astonished when the cavaliers, if
such they were, appeared to execute this order.
As the arms were torn away from the ancient
house, we may imagine the alcalde of the place inquiring:
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" What has our townsman done?    Did he not
serve our country well in the East?"
"H e is a renegade!" answers the commnander.
"But he carried his plans for discovery to our
own King first before he went to the court of Spain."
"Say no more! Spain is reaping the fruits of
his brain, and under his lead is planting her colonies in the new seas, to the detriment of our country
and the shame of the throne. Iis arms must come
down. Portugal rejects his name forever! 
The officers of the King tore down the arms.
They thought they had consigned the name for
which the arms stood to oblivion. As the Jewish
hierarchy said of Spinoza: "Let his name be cast
out under the whole heavens!" That name rose
again.
Years passed and a nephew of Magellan inherited
one of the family estates.  He was stoned in the
streets on account of his name. This man fled in
exile from Portugal to Brazil. He died there, and
said: "Let no heir or descendant of mine ever restore the arms of my family."
In his will he wrote:
"I desire that the arms of my family (Magellan)
should remain forever obliterated, as was done by
order of my Lord and King, as a pitishl),ct for the
crime of Ferdinand Magcellan, because he entered
the service of Castile to the injury of our kingdom."
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A STRANGE ROYAL ORDER.


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whom Portugal and his own family sought to crush
out from the world, that we are now about to
trace.
Following his highest inspiration, he shut his
eyes to the present, and followed the light of the
star of destiny in his soul.  His discovery seems
to (open to the West the doors of China.
lIe was filled from boyhood with a passion for
finding unknown lands and waters; he was haunted
by ideals and visions of noble exploits for the good
of mankind.   His own country, Portugal, would
not listen to his projects at the time that he
offered them to the court; so, like Columbus, Vespucci, and Cabot, he sought the favor of another
country. Nothing could stand before the high purpose of his soul.  "If not by Portugal, then by
Spain," lie said to an intimate friend; meaning that,
if his own country denied him the favor of giving
him an opportunity for exploration, he would present his cause to the court of Spain, which he
did.
This man, whose real name was Fernao de Magalhaes, was born about the year 1480, at Sabrosa,
in Portugal, a wintry district where the hardy soil
and the " gloomy grandeur"r of the mountain scenery
produced men of strong bodies and lofty spirit. He
belonged to a noble family, "one of the noblest in
the kingdom."  His boyhood was passed in the
sierras. HIe had a love of works of geography and
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travel, and he dreamed even then of sunny zones,
undiscovered waters, and unknown regions of the
world. Henry the Navigator and his school of
pilots, astronomers, and explorers, had left the
country full of the spirit of new discoveries which
yet lived.
He went to the capital of Portugal to be educated, and was made a page to the Queen. He was
yet a boy when Columbus returned, bringing the
enthralling news of a new world. Spain was filled
with excitement at the event; her cities rang with
jubilees by day and flared with torches at night.
Portugal caught the new spirit of her late King,
Henry the Navigator, and was ambitious to rival
the discoveries of Spain.  She had already established herself in the glowing realms of India.
In 1509 Magellan went to the West Indies in the
service of the Portuguese Government. He joined
the expedition that discovered the Spice Islands of
Banda, and it became his conviction that these
islands could be reached by a new ocean way.
A great vision arose in his mind. It was a suggestion that never left him until he saw its fulfillment in an unexpected way on seas of which he
never had dreamed.
This view was that he could sail around the
world and reach the Spice Islands by the way of
the West.
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of the Portuguese wars, he received a wound which
healed, but left him lame for life. He, like other
officers, sent in his claim for the pension due to
such service. -le received answer from the parsimonious King (Doim Manoel):
"Your claim is not good.    Your wound has
healed."
He was wounded more deeply by this insult than
he could have been by any poisoned dart from the
Moors. That he should have been refused the recognition of those who had shed blood in his country's
cause rankled in his heart, especially as he saw his
comrades paraded in honor and pensioned for lesser
disabilities. He left Portugal, as an exile, and went
to Spain.
Here the high aspirations of the lame soldier met
with recognition, and it was this service that caused
the Portuguese King to issue the strange order
which has introduced the young and high-spirited
grandee to the readers of this story.
If he had faults-as far as history records he
had no vices-his hiigh aim overcame them.   He
had caught the spirit of Iortuguese Henry the Navigator, and his soul had glowed when the fame of
Columbus first thrilled Spain. I-e had learned the
history of Vasco da Gama, whose name was the
glory of Portugal.  He had educated himself for
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could not know the way, but he knew the guide
that was in him. As a son of the Church, which he
then was, he consecrated all he had to her glory.
What was fame, what was wealth, what was anything to becoming a benefactor of the world, and
living forever in the heart of all mankind?
So his deserted house crumbed in Sabrosa, and
his coat of arms did not there reappear until centuries had followed the course of his genius, and the
whole world came to know his worth.
In view of recent events his character becomes
one of the most interesting of past history.
After nearly four hundred years that cast-out
name rises like a star!
Why, in the view of to-day, was that name cast
out?
Because Magellan saw his duty in a larger life
than in the restrictions of a provincial court. The
lesson has its significance. He who sinks self and
policy, and follows his highest duty and enters the
widest field, will in the final judgment of man receive the noblest and best reward.
We love a lover of mankind, and it strengthens
faith and hope to follow the keel of such a sailor on
any sea.




CHAPTEIR II.


FRIENDS WITH A PURPOSE.
SOULS kindle kindred souls, and the inspirations
of friendship commonly form a part of the early history of beneficent lives.
One of Magellan's early friends was Francisco
Serrao, who sailed with him for Malacca, a great
mlart of merchandise in the East. It was to him
that Magellan wrote that he would meet him again
in the East, "if not by the way of Portugal, by that
of Spain;" words of signal import, which we have
already quoted.
Serrao had a very curious, romantic, and pathetic
history.  He lived in the times of the Portuguese
Viceroys of India. He was made captain of a ship
which sought to explore the Spice Islands, which
were then held to be the paradise of the East.
Cloves and nutmegs then were luxuries, and when
brought to Portugal bore the flavor of the sun lands
of the far-off mysterious seas.
At Banda slips were loaded with spices.  On
sailing there Serrao suffered shipwreck and was cast
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upon a reef and found refuge on a deserted island.
The place was a resort of pirates or wreckers. Some
pirates sighted the wreck of the ship and sought to
plunder the wreckage.
" We have no ship, and the island is without food
or water," said Serrao to his men. "Hide under the
rock and obey me, and we will soon have a ship and
water and food."
The men hid among the caverns of the reef. The
pirates landed, and left their ship for the wreckage.
Serrao rushed through the surf, followed by his
men, and boarded the pirates' vessel.
The wreckers were filled with terror when they
saw what would be their fate if left there, and they
begged to be taken on board, and were received by
Serrao as prisoners.
Serrao traded for many years among the Spice
Islands and was advanced to high positions, but was
poisoned at last, as is supposed, by an intrigue of the
King of Tidor.
One of the most inspiring of Magellan's friends
was Ruy Faleiro, who had wonderful instincts and
a wide vision, but who became a madman. Faleiro
was a Portuguese who, like Magellan, was out of
favor with the court. He was an astronomer, a geographer, and an astrologer. lHe had a fiery and impulsive temper, but with it a passion for discovery, and
so was drawn into Magellan's heart by gravitation.
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started at about the same time for Spain. At Seville
they met in a club of famous discoverers, students,
and refugees.
They had one vision in common, that there was
a short route to the Moluccas by the way of the
West. The route was not what they dreamed it
to be; but there was a new way to the Spice Islands
by the West and East, a way that probably no
voyager from Europe had ever seen, and their
vision was decisive of one of the greatest events
-the circumnavigation of the world. The angle of
vision was not true in their private meetings, nor
had Magellan's been before they met; but another
angle leading from it was true, and would cause
a change of the conception of the world when poor
Ruy Faleiro's brain was losing its hold on such
entrancing hopes.
"We can reach Molucca by a short voyage to the
West," said Ruy Faleiro.
"I am sure that I can do this, if I can have an
expedition such as the King of Spain can give me,"
said Magellan.
" You mnust never communicate this secret to any
man," said Ruy.
"I will never mention the subject to any but
you, said Magellan, " until we can act together."
The vision of finding the East by a short passage
to the West, involved so great a prospect of human
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rest at any time. It haunted him wherever he went.
He began to talk about it under restraint, and
friends came to see what  as on his mind and to
take advantage of it.
The earliest map of the world.
By Heatlaaaof Mil als (tit  brCtory a;.  c Prb)aby copied in paret fro
At~c aimhder,   Mncsr of dai ngjd.
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ORiend  had opened th ir confidential secret, partly
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acknowledge his error, and say that he never meant
in his heart to betray the secrets of his friend, the
cosmographer.
Faleiro dreamed on, but his mind weakened.
The popular legend about this unhappy man was,
that being an astrologer he cast his own horoscope,
and found that the expedition that he hoped to command would be lost, and so feigned madness. This
is only a story.
Faleiro died in Seville about 1523.
It would be interesting to know if he lived to
hear of the great discovery of his old friend Magellan, and if he joined in the general rejoicing
over it.  It is probable that he lived to see
the strange ways by which his countryman had
been led, not over a short passage, but over fardistant seas.  His was a pitiable fate; but his
namle merits honorable mention among men, who,
like Miranda in South America, have inspired
tgreat deeds which they themselves could not ac('omplish.
Men of vision and men of action are essential to
each other; for many men can see what only a few
others can perform.
Magellan married Beatriz Barbosa about the year
1518. Ile was the father of one son. His wife
died shortly after hearing the news of his great discovery of the Pacific and the new way to the East.
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of Spain, son of the demented Queen Joanna, the
daughter of Isabella, and to lay before him a plan
of opening a short way to the East by sailing West.
This purpose more and more absorbed his soul-he
himself was nothing, discovery was everything. The
frown of Portugal no longer cast any deep shadow
over his life; it was his mission to find. He heard in
the acclaim of Columbus a prophecy of what his
own name would one day be.




CHAPTER III.


PRINCE HENRY THE NAVIGATOR AND VASCO
DA GAMA.
ALL things follow suggestion and inspiration,
and the discovery of the Western World owes much
to the heart and brain of Prince Henry, called the
Navigator. Although the son of a King, he felt that
he was more than that-a son of Humanity. He took
up his residence far from the pomp of courts on
the bleak, bare, solitary promontory of Sagres, the
sharp angle of Western Europe. Here he could see
the sun go down on the western sea, day by day.
Some inward genius like a haunting spirit seemed to
beckon his thoughts toward the West.
In view of his abode on a tall headland were the
ruins of a Druidical temple, where Strabo tells us
the gods used to assemble at night under the moon
and stars.  So the place was called the Sacrum
Promontorium, and it was in this region that Prince
Henry schooled his soul in navigation and sought
to inspire all adventurers upon the sea. " Farther "
was his motto, and "Farther yet!" In his solitude
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he called to him a company of restless spirits with
a passion for discovery, and said to them all, " Farther," and " Farther yet!"
The night of the dark ages was passing, and in
the new dawn of civilization, Prince Henry had visions of new ways to India, the magnificent; the
land of gold, gems, and spices, where the sun shone
on gardens of palms and seas of glory.
There were no lighthouses then on the African
coast; there were no sea charts, and the compass
was but little known. But there were eternal stars,
and under them   were the living instincts that
awaken genius.
Prince Henry the Navigator was the fourth son
of King Joao I, or John the Great, and of Queen
Philippa, of the Roses. IIe was a great-grandson
of Edward III, of England.
Prince Henry's motto was " Talclt dc bienl faire 
-" talent of good faculty." The motto furnishes in
brief a history of his life.
The first fruit of Prince Henry's geographical
studies was the discovery of the islands of MIadeira; but there were islands beyond Madeira, and
his restless spirit cried out in the night: " Farther!"
and " Farther yet! "
Cape Bojador, farther " than the farthest point
of the earth," rose just before the supposed regions
of sea monsters, fire, and darkness. Prince John sent
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In 1446 the Prince obtained a charter of the
Canary Islands. tHis ships nlet discovered the
Azores. B1t there were lafnds and islands and seas
farther yet."
Princ  iHeary died in 1463, about thrty year
before the triuimiph of Columbus.
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We must here tell you something of Vasco da
Gama, in order that you may better understand the
plan and purpose of Magellan.
Take your map of the world. Before the passage
to India was discovered by sailing around the Cape
of Good Hope, Africa, the trade between Asia and
Europe was carried on in this manner: There was
a great commercial city on the southern coast of
Arabia (Arabia Felix) called Alda, or Port Alda. It
was a city of merchants. To this port came the ships
from the East-China, Japan, India-laden with
gold, silk, and spices.  The merchants of Alda
carried these goods to the Port of Suez on the
Redl Sea.  Thence the merchandise was conveyed
oi c(armels to the Nile and to Alexandria, Egypt,
and thence by ships to the ports of the MediterraVasco da Gama discovered a new way to India
by doubling the Cape of Good Hope, and when he
returned from that voyage all Europe rang with his
praise. His discovery of the way to India from the
IMediterranean by rounding Africa was one of the:most momentous ever made. Vasco da Gama holds
rank with Columbus in the unveiling of the mysteries of the ocean world.
King John the Navigator had heard such wonderful tales of India that he wished to find a way
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Diaz did not find India, but he found a cape on the
southernmost point of Africa, which lie doubled.
So fearful were the tempests there that he called
it the Cape of Storms.
But King John saw that the islands of India
lay in that direction, and he exclaimed in delight
on hearing Diaz's narrative of the tempestuous
place:
"'Tis the Cape of Good Iope!" This gave the
cape its name.
A Jewish astrologer told Donm Manoel, King of
Portugal, that the riches of India could yet be found
by way of the sea. Of such a discovery the new
King dreamed. Who should he get to undertake a
voyage with such a purpose?
One day, as he sat in his halls among his courtiers
and grandees studying maps, a man of about thirty
years, who had a noble bearing, entered an outer
apartment. A sword hung by his side.
The King, who had been thinking of his great
mariners, lifted his face and said:
"Thank God! I have found my man. Bring to
me Vasco da Gama."
IIe it was that stood in the outer hall.
"Vasco," said the King, "I know your soul. For
the glory of Portugal you must find India by the
way of the sea! "
"I am at your service, sire, while life shall last."
"Depart in all haste."




PRINCE HENRY THE NAVIGATOR.


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It was March, 1497. Vasco da Gama raised his
sails and departed from Lisbon.
He passed the "Cape of Good Hope," and met
with many adventures,
the narratives of which
would fill a book.
He crossed the India.... ^^^.v  l = Ocean, blown pleasantly on by the tradewinds.
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arose:
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Vasco da Gama.
and fell at his feet.
"Captain, behold India! "
The shores of India rose in the burning light of
tlle tropic seas. Vasco da Gama saw them and fell
upI)on is knees.
Mhountain rose above mountain, and hill over hill;
then green palms and shiining beaches came into
view like scenes of enchantment.
"That is Cananor," said the Moorish pilot; " the
great city of Calicat is twelve leagues distant."
They sailed over those twelve leagues of clear
resplend-ent waters and came to Calicat, or Malabar.
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of the most famous of India. Here came Arabian,ii(l Egyptian merchants.Itwsa       ohmen
iit, nd the prinflces of Calicat encouraged trade
lbciween the Artabs and Ilindoos. The city was now
to becomie an emiporiumi for the Western World.
A fer in any adlventures in Mal abar, Vasco da
(aimua cruised alono- the coast of India. Everything
-was wvond~erful, a nd the wonders grew.
In Sptemiber, 1_499, lie returned, and was recei ve(1 like asovereign by the 1Portugunese Kinco. His
airriva-l wA-s a holiday, the glory of which has lived
in a~ll Portugouiese holidays until now.
I le wat-s given titles of distinction  H-e was made
ai Vice_-roy of India.
Tw'Nenty yea~rs after these events Macrellan wag
(lesthied to discover aiU ollhr way to India.




CHAPTER IV.


THE ENTHUSIASTS CARRY THEIR PLANS TO THE
KING.
MAGELLAN, full of his project of finding a short
way to the rich spicery by sailing West, now sought
the favor of the Spanish court. Gold has ever been
the royal want, and nobles have always had open
ears to schemes that promised to fill the public
treasury.
Magellan's interesting friend Francisco Serrao,
who had remained in the Indian possessions of the
Portuguese, after Magellan's return, had discovered
resources of the tropical seas of the Orient that were
almost boundless. He had written to Magellan:
"If you would become rich return to the Moluccas."
This letter would be a sufficient passport to the
nobles who had the ear of the King. He showed the
letter to the King's ministers.
He thought that the point of South America
turned westtrard, as the Cape of Good Hope toward
the East. HIe had an imaginary map in his mind of
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ENTHUSIASTS CARRY THEIR PLANS TO THE KING. 25


an ocean world whose shape had no real existence,
but that answered well as a theory.
Magellan had brought a globe from Portugal on
which lie had drawn the undiscovered world as he
tlought it existed. The strait which he had hoped
to find was omitted on this globe in his drawings
that no navigator might anticipate his discovery.
Some of the ministers listened to the project with
indifference, a few with ridicule; but as a rule Magellan appealed to willing ears. The ministers as a
body agreed to commend the enterprise to the King.
The hIaros of Antwerp, the Rothschilds of the time,
favored the expedition. So Magellan and Faleiro
nlade out a petition of formal proposals which they
desired to present to the King, and awaited the
(Ipol'lrtunity.
Tliat opportunity soon came. Charles V, son of
Joanllna, wlho was passing her days in solitude and
grief on account of the loss of her husband, was on
isC way to Aragon. He was Emperor of Germany
anad King of Spain. He was a youth now; having
bee(n born in (lhent, February 24, 1500. He came to
the thlro}ne of Spain in 1516, as the disordered intelle.t of his mother made her incapable of reigning.
IIe was. elected German Emperor in 1519.
In his youth he had been dissolute. Seeing the
res-ponsibilities that he owed to the world and the
ageI, he suddenly received new moral impulses and
conquered himself, and his moral life was followed




26           THIE STORY OF MAGELLAN.
by a religious disposition.  He  received from the
Pope 1  e the ti  of Roman Emperor. His powerful ina pinting by Titian
telleer subdued a areat part of continatal iErope
to hs    ill;  h     b  m s ia       of         of




ENTHUSIASTS CARRY THEIR PLANS TO THE KING. 27


state, retired from  the world, and ended his life as
a religious recluse.
The young King entered Spain in triumpll, but
amid the glare of receptions his ears were not dull
to projects for acquiring gold.
Magellan and Faleiro, under the commendation
of the ministry, were soon able to lay their project
before the young grandson of the great Isabella. Iie
received them   in the spirit that Isabella had imet
Columbus.    He approved their plans, and charged
them  to make preparations for the expedition.
Charles entered Zaragoza in May, 1518, a youth
of eighteen, and Magellan and Faleiro followed the
royal train on its triumphal march in the blooming
days of the year.   They were happy men, and their
glowing visions added to the joy of the court on its
journey amid singing nightingales and pealing bells.
The royal name signed to Magellan's commission
was "Juana," who had been the favorite daughter
of Queen Isabella, who had signed the commission
of Columbus.*    This royal daughter of Aragon and
Castile was born at Toledo, November 6, 1479. She
* i)onna Juana and I)on Carlos, her son, by the grace of God, Queen
and King of Castile, Leon, Aragon, the two Sicilies, and Jerusalem, of Navuara, Granlada, Toledo, Valencia, Galicia, the Mallorcas, Seville, Sardinia,
Colrdova, Corsica, Murcia, Jaen, the Algarves, of Aljazira, Gibraltar, of the
Canary Isles, of the Indies, isles and mainland of the Ocean-sea,,Counts of
Barcclona, Lords of Biscay and Molina, D)ukes of Athlens and Neopatria,
Counts of Roussillon and Cerdana, Marquises of Euristan and Gociano,
Arch(lukes of Austria, Dukes of Bergona and Brabant, Counts of Flanders and Tirol, etc.




28


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was in the bloom of her girlhood when the news of
the return of Columbus thrilled Spain.
She was a girl of ardent affections; a lover of
music; not beautiful, but charming in manner; and
at the age of eighteen was betrothed to Philip of
the Low Countries, called Philip the Handsome.
The wedding of this daughter of Isabella was to
be celebrated in Flanders by fetes of unusual splendor. A fleet of one hundred and thirty vessels prepared to bear the bride to her handsome Prince.
The ships were under the command of the chivalrous admiral of Castile.
Juana took leave of her mother at the end of
August, 1496, and embarked at the port of Laredo.
A more interesting bride under more joyous circumstances had seldom gone forth to meet a bridegroom.
The sails covered the sea under the flags of the
glory of Spain. They drifted away amid music and
shoutings, but the salvos of the guns had hardly
died away before terrible storlms arose. The fleet
was shattered, and many of the vessels were lost.
The young bride herself arrived in Flanders
safely, and her marriage with the archduke followed at Lille.
When Queen Isabella heard of the birth of
Charles, she recalled that it fell on the day of Matthias, and exclaimed, " Sors cccidit stper Mathiamin
-" the lot fell upon Maltthlias."




ENTHUSIASTS CARRY THEIR PLANS TO THE KING. 29


She predicted that the infant would become the
King of Spain.
Philip and Juana were summoned to Spain to
meet the people over whom it then seemed probable
that they would soon
be called to reign.
They entered France
in 1501, attended by 
Flemish nobles, and. 
wherever they went
was a holiday. There
were weeks of splendid fetes in honor
of the progress.
When Ferdinand    /    k {/ ^  ]
and Isabella heardl:. 
of the   arrival of  </_                 )/
Philip and Juana in       \- -.C v-     ),_
Spain they hastened      Ferdinand and Isabella.
to Toledo to meet             From a coin.
them. Here Philip and his Queen received the allegiance of the Cortes.
But Philip was a gay Prince, and he loved the
dissipations of Flanders more than his wife or the
interests of his prospective Spanish possessions. So
he left his wife, and returned to Flanders.
The conduct of the handsome Prince drove Juana
Imad. She loved him so fondly that she thouglht only
of him, and sat in silence day after day with her




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eyes fixed on the ground, as an historian says, "equally regardless of herself, her future subjects, and her
afflicted parents."
She subsequently joined Philip at Burgos. Here
Philip died of fever after overexertion at a game of
ball. Juana never left his bedside, or shed a tear.
Her grief obliterated nearly all things in life, and
she was dumb. 1Her only happiness now, except in
music, was to be with his dead body.
She removed her husband's remains to Santa
Clara.
The body was placed on a magnificent car, and
was accompanied in the long way to the tomb by a
train of nobles and priests.  Juana never left it.
She would not allow it to be moved by day. She
said:
" A. widow who has lost the sun of her soul
should never expose herself to the light of day! "
Wherever the procession halted, she ordered new
funeral ceremonies. She forbade nuns to approach
the body. Finding the coffin had been carried to a
nunnery at a stage of the journey, she had it removed to the open fields, where she watched by
it, and caused the embalmed body to be revealed to
her by torches. She ladl  a tomb made for the remains in sight of her palace windows in Santa
Clara, and sle watched over it in silence for fortyseven years, taking little interest in any other thing.
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ENTHUSIASTS CARRY THEIR PLANS TO THlE KING. 31


name for a timne was affixed to royal comminissions,
and so Magellan sailed in the service of Chal'lles
under the signature of Juana, who was silently
watching over her husband's tomb, in the hope that
the Prince would one day rise again.
We relate this narrative to give a view of the
events of the period, and for the same reason we
niust speak  of another eminent person who acted in the
pIlac(e of the Queen in
hler unhapy state of
mind.
This was the great
Iolitical,enius  of 
the time, the virtu11us and benevolent/                      '!:;
(Cardinal  Ximenes,
staltesmian, archbisho),. thle heart of thle 
Ple'olle and the conscince of the Church.      Cardinal Ximenes.
lies was blorn of a       After a painting by Velasquez.
humible family in Castile in 1487. He was educated
in RVoIme.  -lis character and learning were su(ch
tlhat (21ueen Isabella chose him for her confessor, and
nla(le liim Archbishop of Toledo, with the approval
of t-lle Pope.
On the death of Philip in 1505, he was made




32          THE STORY OF MAGELLAN.
regent for Juana.  Ferdinand named Ximenes regent of Spain on his deathbed, until Charles V
should return from Flanders to Spain.
The regency of Ximenes was one of honor and
glory. He himself lived humbly and simply amid
all his associations of pomp and power.
HIe maintained thirty poor persons daily at his
own cost, and gave half of his income to charity.
Ile excited the jealousy of Charles V at last, and
lost his power in consequence. He lived to extreme
age, and left a character that Spain has ever loved
to hold in honor.
Such was the political condition of Spain in the
early days of Magellan.




CHAPTER V.


ABOUT THE HAPPY ITALIAN WHO WISHED TO SEE
THE WORLD.-BEAUTIFUL SEVILLE!
WE should have known but little of the adventures of Magellan, but for Antonia Pigafetta, Chevalier, and Knight of Rhodes.
He was a young Italian of a susceptible heart and
happy imagination.
He came wandering to Barcelona, Spain, in the
generation that remembered Columbus, and the
splendid scenes that welcomed the return of Columbus on the field of Sante Fe. He must have heard
the enthralling description of those golden dayshe could not be a Columbus; but, if he could win
the good will of Magellan, he might go after Columbus and see what no Europeans had seen.
So he wandered the streets of Barcelona and
heard the tales of the events that occurred when
the " Viceroy of the Isles" was received there by
Isabella.
What days those had been! The march of Columbus through Spain to meet Isabella at Sante F6, was
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such as had a demigod appeared on earth.          Spain
was thrilled. The world knew no night.        The trumpets of heralds rent the air, and men's hearts swelled
high at the tales of tlhe golden enmpires that Colon
had added to Aragoon and Castile.       Alas! they did
not know that there are riches which do not enrich,
and that it is only the gold that does good that
ennobles.
As Columbus approached         with   his glittering
cavaliers songs rent the air, whose words have been
interpreted"Thy name, 0 Fernando!
Through all earth shall be sounded,
Columbus has triumphed,
His foes are confounded!"
or
"Thy name, Isabella,
Through all earth shall be sounded,
Columbus has triumphed,
Itis foes are confounded! "
To Aragon and Castile Columbus had "given a
new   world."    Peals of golden     horns shook     the
delighted cities, where balconies overflowed with
flowers.
His reception    at Barcelona by the King        and
Queen had been made inconceivably splendid:
" That was a glorious day
That dawned on Barcelona. Banners filled
The thronging towers, the old bells rung, and blasts
Of lordly trumpets seemed to reach the sky
Cerulean. All Spain had gathered there,
And waited there his coming; Castilian knights,




Barcelona.




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THE STORY OF MAGELLAN.


Gay cavaliers, hidalgos young, and e'en the old
Puissant grandees of far Aragon,
With glittering mail and waving plumes and all
The peasant multitude with bannerets
And charms and flowers.
" Beneath pavilions
Of brocades of gold, the Court had met.
The dual crowns of Leon old and proud Castile
There waited him, the peasant mariner.
"The heralds waited
Near the open gates; the minstrels young and fair
Upon the tapestries and arrased walls,
And everywhere from all the happy provinces
The wandering troubadours.
" Afar was heard
A cry, a long acclaim. Afar was seen
A proud and stately steed with nodding plumes,
Bridled with gold, whose rider stately rode,
And still afar a long and sinuous train
Of silvery cavaliers. A shout arose,
And all the city, all the vales and hills,
With acclamations rung.
" He came, the Genoese,
With reverent look and calm and lofty mien,
And saw the wondering eyes and heard the cries,
And trumpet peals, as one who followed still
Some Guide unseen.
" Before his steed
Crowned Indians marched with lowly faces,
And wondered at the new world that they saw;
Gay parrots screamed from their gold-circled arms,
And from their crests swept airy plumes. The sun
Shone full in splendor on the scene, and here
The old and new world met!"
The young Italian Chevalier, Pigafetta, Knight of
Rhodes, visited the scenes that his own countryman
had made immortal by his voyage.
He thought of the plumed Indians and               of the




THE ITALIAN WHO WISHED TO SEE TlE WO()LD. 37


birds of splendid plumage that (Iolumbuis had
brought back.
Ile heard much of Magellan, tle " new Colullbus." WVhy might lie not go out upon unknown seas
with him and discover new races, an(l bring back
with him tropic spices, birds, and floowers?
Hle journeyed to Seville and there mlet AMagellan.
IIe entered into the dreams of the new navigator.
He asked IMagellan to let him sail witl hiim.
" Why do you wish to enter upon such a llazardous undertaking? "
"I am desirous of seeing the wonderful things of
the ocean!"
Magellan saw it was so. The Spaniards might
distrust him, the Portuguese be jealous of him, but
here was a man who would have no race prejudices-a man after his own heart, whom he could
trust.
"You wish to see the wonders of the ocean
world? " he asked.
"Yes, and I can write, and wllatever I may do,
and wherever I may go, I will always be true to
you-the heart of Pigafetta will always be loyal to
the Admiral!"
" My Italian Chevalier, you may embark with me
to see the wonders of the ocean world. You shall
follow my lantern."
From that hour the youngf Italian lived in anticipation. What new lands would he see, what palm
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islands, what gigantic men and strange birds, and
inhabitants of the sea?
The young Knight of Rhodes had spoken truly,
whatever light might fail, his heart would ever be
true to the Admiral.
So the Knight embarked with the rude crew to
follow, in the silences of uncharted seas, the lantern
of Magellan.
He composed on the voyage a narrative for Villiers de I'Isle Adams, Grand Master of Rhodes. By
this narrative we are still able to follow in fancy
the lantern of Magellan through the straits that
now bear the name of Magellan, to the newly discovered Pacific, and around the world.
His character was as spirited as Magellan's was
noble.
We will sail with him in our voyage around the
world, for he went all the way and bore the news
of Magellan's triumphs to Seville again.
Beautiful Seville! We must glance at the city
here. She was the pride of Spain in those times
when Spain dazzled the world. The Hispal of the
Phrenicians, the Hispales of the Roman conquest,
and the Seville of the Moors! Her glory had arisen
in the twilight of history, and had grown with the
advancement of the race.
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BEAUTIFUL SEVILLE!


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period had passed leaving her rich in arts and treasures, and splendid architecture.
Situated on the banks of the Gu(atllillqivir, circular in shape and surrounded with more tlllan a h11 -dred Moorish towers, and about ten miles in circulnlference, she rivaled the cities
of Europe and of
the Orient.
The great cathedral was being completed at
that time, a moun-                         e
tain of art, arising from its l utlain  o
of marble. It was _F
four hundred and
thirty- one  feet 
long, and three 
hundred and fifteen  feet wide 
with solemn and
grand     arches
The Giralda.
lighted by the
finest windows in Spain, perhaps the most enchanting lights through which the sun ever shone.
The altars were enriched by the wealth of discovery.
Over this mountain of gold, marbles, and gems




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THE STORY OF MAGELLAN.


gleamled the Giralda, or weather vane, in the form
of a statue, three hundred and fifty feet high.
Seville at this time was a city of churches. T'o
these, sailors resorted while waiting for an expedition to complete its preparations for the sea, for most
of them were good Catholics, and such as hoped for
God's favor in the enterprise upon which they were
about to enter.
Here, too, was the old Moorish palace, the Alcazar, with its delicate lacework like the walls of
the Alhambra, but richer in color. In this palace
was the Hall of the Ambassadors, one of the most
enchanting apartments ever created by the genius
of man.
In the latter dream of MIoorish fancy have passed
aching hearts, as well as tlose filled with wonder
and delight. Here Pedro the Cruel received one of
the kings of Granada, and murdered him with his
own hand, to rob him of the jewels that adorned his
person.
The tales of Pedro the Cruel haunted the city at
this time.
We are told that this monarch used to go about
the city in disguise.
One night he went out thus to serenade a beautiful lady. As lie approached the balcony with his
guitar where the lady lived, he saw another man
there, who had come for the same purpose.  The
rival musician filled him with rage, and the King




BEAUTIFUL SEVILLE!


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rushed upon him and struck him down and killed
him.
He fled away. Ile reasoned that as he was in
disguise no one could know him.
There was an old woman who kept a bakery
across the way from the house where the noble lady
lived. She was looking out of her window at the
time of the murder.  She saw the act, and got a
view of the terrible face of the royal musician as
he was fleeing away.
"That was the King himself," saidl the old bake
woman. "By my soul, that was the Kin,'! 
The next day the news of the murder filled the
city. The murdered man was a person of rank and
importance. The people were alarmed and indignant.
" Wrho did the deed? " was a question that arose
to every lip.
The King, cruel as he was, did not wish to be
suspected of being a street assassin. So he issued
a proclamation in this form:
Unless the alcalde (judge) of Seville shall
discover the murderer of the gallant musician
within three days, the alcalde shall lose his
head."7
The city judge began to make great exertions
to discover the murderer.
The old bake woman caime to him and said:
"I know who did the deed. But silence, silence!




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I saw it with my own eyes, but we must be still. It
was the King himself! "
The alcalde dared not accuse the King, and yet
he must save his own head. What was he to do?
He made an image of the King. He then went to
the palace.
"0 King! I have found the murderer. I have
brought him here to receive sentence."
The King was glad that a suspected person had
been found, so that the public thought might be
directed to the suspect.
" What shall be done with him?" asked the
alcalde.
"What! He who would slay a musician about to
serenade a noble lady?"
"Yes, your Majesty."
"What shall be done with him? I condemn him
to death. Bring him before me."
The alcalde brought in the image of the King,
and uncovered it.
The King beheld himself.
"I will save your head," said the King, and the
alcalde went thoughtfully away.




CHAPTER VI.


ENEMIES.-ESTEBAN GORMEZ.
No man living could better know what he needed
for such a stupendous and unprecedented undertaking than Magellan, who had already been to the
spicery of the Orient in the service of Albuquerque,
the Portuguese Viceroy. Under the royal sanction,
the dockyards of Seville were at his command. He
repaired to Seville, and was there looked upon as
one destined to harvest the wealth of the Indies.
But as soon as it became known in Portugal that
Magellan was to lead a new expedition of discovery,
the mistake that the Kingc had made in rejecting
the proposal of the lame soldier, to whom le had refused pension honors, became apparent. The court
saw what this rejected man of positive purpose and
invaluable knowledge of navigation mighlt accomplish. Should his dreams be prophetic and his projects prove successful, the glory would go to Spain,
and the King would be held responsible for another
mistake like that which his predecessor had made
in the case of Columbus.
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TIHE STORY OF MAAGELLAN.


What must the court of Portugal do? The hammers were flying in Seville on the ships loading for
the voyage.  Magellan was making up his crews.
Spain had faith in him, and he had faith in himself;
never a man had more.
Portugal must prevent the expedition.    The
Crown must appeal to Magellan to withdraw from
it. The King must ask young King Charles to dismiss Magellan as an act of royal courtesy. If these
efforts were not successful, it was argued that the
expedition must be arrested by force, or Magellan
must be murdered by secret spies of the court.
The fleet preparing was to consist of five ships
with ample equipment.    These were named the
Trinidad, the San Antonio, of one hundred and
twenty Spanish tons ealch; the Concepcion, of ninety
Spanish tons; the \Victoria, of eighty-five tons; and
the Santiago, of seventy-five. The Victoria, the ship
of destiny, was to circumnavigate the globe.
And now while the lhammers were at work, the
dull King of Portugal began to arouse himself to
arrest the plan, and the court, seeing his spirit,
acted with ]him.
In the brig-lt days in Zaragoza Magellan had
been warned that lie was in danger of being assassinated. But lie did not take alarm. As his project
rose into public view at Seville lie must have known
that lie was surrounded by spies, but lie did not heed
them; he kept right on, marching forward as it.




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were after the inspiration that had taken possession of his soul.
There was an India House in Seville, composed
of merchants, and these were favorable to the expedition. In Spain everything favored Magellan.
Aluaro da Costa was the Portuguese minister to
the court of Spain. Ile plotted against Magellan, and
sought an interview with young Charles in order to
induce him to eliminate the Portuguese from the expedition. Charles was about to become a brotherin-law to Dom Manoel, and Aluaro da Costa could
appeal to the King in this cause in many ways.
Full of diplomacy and craft, he met the King
who had to weigh the prospect of gold and glory
against this personal argument. Gold outweighed
the family considerations, for Charles in his young
days was a man of powerful ambitions.
Aluaro da Costa wrote to Dom Manoel a graphic
account of this interview.  It shows how politic
ministers of state were in those days. We can not
give the reader a clearer view of some of the obstacles against which Maglellan had to contend in
those perilous (lays in Spain than by citing Aluaro's
account to Dom AManoel of his interview with young
Charles V in his intrigue against Magellan:
"SIRE: Concerning Ferdinand Magellan's affair,
how much I have done and how I have labored,
God knows, as I have written you at length; and
now I have spoken upon the subject very strongly




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to the King, putting before him all the inconveniences that in this case may arise, and also representing to him what an ugly matter it was, and
how unusual for one King to receive the subjects
of another King, his friend, contrary to his wish,
a thing unheard of amlonlg cavaliers, and accounted both ill-judged and ill-seemingi. Yet I had
just put your Highness and your Highness's possessions at his service in Valladolid at the moment
that he was harboring these persons against your
will. I begged him to consider that this was not
the time to offend your Highness, the more so in an
affair which was of so little importance and so uncertain; and that he would have plenty of subjects
of his own and men to make discoveries when the
time came, without availing himself of those malcontents of your Highness, whom your Highness
could not fail to believe likely to labor more for
your disservice than for anything else; also that
his Highness had had until now so much to do in
discovering his own kingdoms and dominions, and in
settling them, that he ought not to turn his attention to these new affairs, from which dissensions and
other matters, which may well be dispensed with,
may result.
"I also presented to him the bad appearance
that this would have at the very moment of the
marriage-the ratification of friendship and affection.  And also that it seemed to me that your
Highness would much regret to learn that these
men asked leave of him to return,* and that he did


* This statement there is every reason to believe was a pure fiction of
Da Costa.




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not grant it, the which are two faults-the receiving them contrary to your desire, and the retainingr themn contrary to their own. And I begged of
him, both for his own and for your lighness's sake,
that he would do one of two things: either permit
them to go, or put off the affair for this year, by
which he would not lose much; and means miglht
be taken whereby lie might be obliged, and your
lighlness might not be offended, as you would be
were tllis scheme carried out.
" le w:s so surplrised, sire, at what I told him,
that I also was surprised; but he replied to me with
the best words in the world, saying that on no
account did lie wish to offend your Highness, and
many other go(od words; and he suggested that I
should speak to the Cardinal, and confide the whole
matter to him.
" May the Lord increase the life and dominions
of your Iligllness to his holy service.  Froin Saragoca, Tuesday night, the 28th day of September.
"I kiss the hands of your Highness,
' ALUIARO DA COSTA."
Court intrigue against Mtagellan did not avail.
There was one thing statecraft could do. It could
set spies on IMagellan on board his own ships. This
it succeededl in doing.
There was in Spain at this time a Portuguese
adventurer and navigator by the name of Estevan
or Esteban Gorm ez-Stephen Gormez.
Ile was a student of navigation, and was restless to follow the examples of Columbus and Vasco




ENEMIES.-ESTEBAN GORMEZ.


49


da Gama. Ie had applied to the court of Spainprobably to Cardinal Ximenes, for a commlission to
go on a voyage of discovery and he had received a
favorable answer, and was preparing to elmbark,
when Magellan appeared at court and promised to
find the Spice Islands by way of South America.
Magellan's scheme was so much larger and definite than that of Gormez that the court canceled
its favors to the lesser plans, and Gormez had to
abandon his prospects of sailing under the royal
favors of Spain.
The eyes of Spain were now fixed on Magellan.
"I will find a way to the Spice Islands by South
America or by the West," said Magellan to tle ministers of the King, "or you may have my head."
These were bold words. Magellan had not only
been to the Spice Islands, but he had gone out on
the very voyage that discovered some of them. He
had behaved heroically on the voyage. So his application to the court superseded the plan of Gormez
and the latter sunk out of sight.
In his despondency at the failure of his plans,
Gormez came to Magellan.
" My countryman," said Gormez, "your schemes
have supplanted mine and turned my ships into air.
I was the first to plan a voyage to the Moluccas out
of the wake of hurricanes and monsoons. I (lo not
feel that I have been treated rightly.  Something
surely is due to me.'




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TIE STORY OF MAGELLAN.


Magellan was a man of generous impulses. He
saw that Gormez had a case for moral appeal.
"Mly friend," said he, " you shall have a place in
my expedition."
tte could but think that the inspiration and
knowledge of navigation of his countryman would
be useful to him, and he pitied him for his disappointment, knowing how he himself would feel were
his plans to be set aside.
So Gormez, the Portuguese, was made the pilot
of the Antonio.
Magellan, had he reflected, must have seen that
this man would carry with him envy and jealousy,
passions that are poisons. But Estefano, or Esteban, or Stephen Gormez, took his place at the
pilot house of the Antonio to follow the lantern of
MLagellan, but the hurt in his heart at being superseded never healed.
On the ships also was one Juan de Carthagena,
captain of the Concepcion, a spy, and one of the
"nalapots " of the expedition. Ie was called the
vccdor, or inspector. HIe inspected Magellan, and
Magellan inspected him, as we shall see.
And now the flags arose in the clear air, and the
joyful fleet cleared the Guadalquivir and leaped into
the arms of the open sea, amid the acclamations of
gay grandees and a happy people.
It was September 20th when the anchors were
lifted, of which probably one was destined to come




ENEMIES.-ESTEBAN GORMEZ.        51
back in triumph after an immortal voyage that encompassed the earth, and gave to Spain a new
ocean.
And the King of Portugal ordered the coat of
arms to be torn down from the house of Magellan,
as we have pictured at the beginning of our narrative.




CHAPTER VII.


" MAROONED."
THE expedition moved down its western way,
over the track of Columbus. It had left poor Ruy
Faleiro behind-he who had( seen the progress of it
all in the fitful lilght of a disordered vision. tie had
not relinquished his own high aims. lie hoped to
follow Magellan with an expedition of his own.
The ships were furnished wth " castles," fore and
aft; they carried gay pennons and were richly stored.
The artillery comprised sixty-two culverins and
smaller ordnance.  Five thousand or more pounds
of powder were shut up in the magazines, and a
large provision was made for trading with the
natives-looking glasses for women, velvets, knives,
and ivory ornaments, and twenty tlousand bells.
Magellan's ship bore a lantern, swung high in
the air amid the thickly corded rigging, which the
other ships were to keep in view in the night. What
a history had this lantern! It gleamed out on the
night track of a new world, a pillar of fire that
encompassed tihe earth as in the orbit of a star.
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53


The fleet had fifteen days of good weather and
passed Cape Verde Islands, running along the African coast.
But the fleet carried with it disloyal hearts. The
Portuguese prejudice against Magellan sailed with
it. The Spanish sailors distrusted the loyalty of Magellan to Spain.
The commander was a man of great heart, chivalrous, and noble, but he could be firm when there
arose an occasion for it.
After leaving Teneriffe Magellan altered his
course.
Juan de Carthagena, captain of the San Antonio,
"the inspector" and a spy, demanded of Magellan
why he had done so.
"Sir," said Magellan, " you are to follow my flag
by day and my lantern by night, and to ask me no
further questions."
Carthagyena demnanded that Magellan should report his plans to him. Finding that the Admiral
was bent on conducting his own expedition, he
began to act sullenly, and to disobey orders.
Again the captain of the San Antonio demanded
of Magellan that lie should communicate his orders
in regard to the course of steerage to him. tle did
this by virtue of his office as inspector. He showed
a very hnaunlty and disloyal spirit, and if this were
not to be checked, the success of the expedition
would be imperiled.  He was abetted by Pedro
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Sanches, a priest.  Magellan saw treason already
brewing, and he determined to stamp it out at once.
He went to Carthagena, and laid his hands
on him.
" Captain, you are my prisoner."
The astonished captain cried out to his men:
"Unhand me-seize Magellan! "
Carthagena had been a priest, and he had great
personal influence, but the men did not obey him.
" Lead him to the stocks and secure him there,"
ordered Magellan.
The order was obeyed. The fallen inspector was
committed to the charge of the Captain of the Victoria, and another officer was given charge of the
San Antonio.
" When we reach land Juan de Carthagena shall
be marooned," was the sentence imposed upon the
inspector. A like sentence was imposed upon Sanches.
It touched the hearts of the crews to hear this
sentence. What would become of the two priests,
were it to be executed? Would they fall prey to
the natives, or perhaps win the hearts of the people
and be made chiefs amnong thelm?
There was a pilot on board the ship who sympathized with the mutineers, but who had close lips,
Esteban Gormez, of whom we have spoken. Were
the two mutineers to be marooned he would be glad
to rescue them.








Night; ra  i higt 'the hipi   i wlloe*6 Mgfnrlas In in




"MAROONED."


55


He had been discontented since the day that his
own plans for an expedition had been superseded by
those of Magellan.
His discontentment had grown. He became critical as the fleet sailed on. Every day reminded him
of what he might have done, if he could have only
secured the opportunity.
A disloyal heart in any enterprise is a very perilous influence. A wooden horse in Troy is more dangerous than an army outside.
Magellan in Gormez had a subtle foe, and that
foe was his own countryman.
This man probably could not brook to see his
rival add the domains of the sea to the crowns of
Juana and of Charles, though he himself had sought
to do the same thing. Magnanimous he could not be.
Discovery for the sake of discovery had little meaning for him, but only discovery for his own advancement and glory.
He became jealous of Mesquita, Magellan's
cousin, now master of the Antonio, who is thought
to have advised severe measures to suppress conspiracy.
Night after night he sat down under the moon
and stars, and brooded over his fancied neglect, and
dreamed. Night after night the ships followed the
lantern of Magellan, and the wonders of the sea
grew; but to him it were better that no discoveries
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THE STORY OF MAGELLAN.


to go to the glory of Spain through the pilotage of
Magellan.
Discontent grows; jealousy grows as one broods
over fancied wrongs, and sees the prospects of a
rival's success.  So it was with Gormez.  In his
heart he did not wish the expedition to succeed. He
was ambitious to lead such an enterprise himself,
which he also did, at last, sailing along Massachusetts Ray and,iving it its first name.
When Gormez had heard that the two disloyal
men were to be marooned, his feelings rose against
Magellan. That they deserved their sentence he
well knew, but they were opposed to AMagellan, as
was his own heart. He would have been glad to
have saved them from the execution of their sentence, but he did not know how to do it.
"I will rescue them if ever I can," he thought.
"This expe(lition is not for the glory of Portugal."
Thle ships sailed on, bearing the two conspirators
to some place where they could be marooned.
Let us turn from this dark scene to one of a more
hopeful spirit.
One day, as we may picture the scene, the
sea lay unruffled like a mirror. The ships drifted
near eachl otlier, and night came on after a sudden
twilioght, andl tle stars seemed like liquid lighlts shot
forth or let down from some etlereal fountain. The
Soutlheron (ross shlone so clearly as to uplift the eves
of the sailors. The ships were becalmed.




"MAROONEDI)."


57


Boats began to ply between the ships, and the
officers of the Trinity, Santiago, Victoria, and Concepcion assembled under the awning of the San
Antonio, Mesquita's ship, of one hundred and
twenty tons.
MIesquita, as we have said, was a cousin of
Magellnan, and so the Antonio seemed a friendly
ship.
Magellan sat down by his cousin. The lantern
was going out; its force was spent.
"We must get a new kind of lantern," said Magellan to his cousin, " and a code of signal lights.
We need a lantern that is something more steady
and durable than a faggot of wood."
" I have here a new farol," he continued, the men
listening with intent ears.  "Here it is, and I
wonder, my sailors, how far your eyes will follow it."
" All loyal hearts will follow it," said Mesquita,
" wherever it may go."
Gormez frowned. Iis heart was bitter.
There rose up an officer named Del Cano, and
stood hat in hand. All eyes were fixed upon him.
May it please you, Admiral," he said, "to receive a word from me. I will follow the new farol
wherever it may lead me. I have ceased to count
my own life in this cause."
Gormez frowned again.
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TH E STORY OF MAGELLAN.


Yon have a true heart.   If I should fall see that
this f arol goes back to Spain!"1
Del Cano bowed.
Mfagellan showed the new lantern to the officers.


r1


Arms granted to Sebastian Del, (ano,
Capt~ain of the Victoria, the first
vessel that eiretinniavigatedl the
gl ole.


It was m-iade of
beaten reeds that had
been soaked in water,
and dried in the sun. It
would hold light long,
and carry it strongly
and steadily.
4~All the ships must
have these new farols,"
sai(1 hie, and I must
teach you how to signal
by them."
lie stood up.   Thie
moon was risino' and
time (is~ky, purlple air be(aile luimimnous.
lie lleldl the farol in
his hand.


Two lighlts," hie saidW shall mnean for thme ship
to tack.
"Three lighlts that the sails shall be lowered.
Four, thiat they shiall stop.
"Five Hligts, or mtore, that we lmve discovered
land, when the flag-ship shall (lisciharge a bombard. Follow iy lantern alwvays; you can trust it




"MAROONED."               59
wherever it may fare.   My farol shall be my
star!!
The men sat there long. There sprung up a
breeze at last, and the sea began to ripple in the
moon.
Most expeditions that have made successful
achievements have carried men of great hope. Such
a man was Del Cano. He was loyal to the heart of
Magellan; and happy is any leader who has such a
companion, whose steel rings true.
Magellan hung out the farol.  The sails were
spread, and the fleet passed on over the solitary
ocean.
Whither?




CHAPTER VIII.
" THE  WONDERS OF NEWI LANDS." —PIGAFETTA'S
TALES OF HIS ADVENTURES WITH MA(ELLAN. —
TIIHE STORY OF " THE FOUNTAIN TREE."-" ST.
ELMO'S FIRE."
THE ships moved on, bearing the hopeful Del
Cano, the frowning Gormnez, the two prisoners, and
the happy Italian Pigafetta.
Our next chapters will be a series of wonder tales
which reveal the South Temperate Zone and its inhabitants as tley appeared to the young and susceptible Italian, Pigafetta, nearly four hundred years
ago.
Pigafetta, as we have shown, desired to acconipany Magellan that he might "see the wonders of
the new lands."  Ile saw them  indeed, and lhe
painted themn with his pen so vividly that they will
always live. We get our first views of the strange
inhabitants of the Southern regions of the New
World from him. We are to follow his narratives, as
printed for the Hakluyt Society, London, making
some omissions, and changing  f its form in part, hop60




Interior of the Aleizr of Seville.




THE STORY OF MAGELLAN.


ing thereby to render the text more clear. We
closely follow the spirit of events.  Pigafetta addresses his narrative "To the very illustrious and
very excellent Lord Philip de Villiers Lisleaden,
Grand Master of lhodes," of whom we have spoken.
IIe says, by way of introduction:
" linding myself in Spain in the year of the
nativity of our Lord, 1519, at the court of the most
serene King of the Romans (Charles V), and learning
there of the great and awful things of the ocean
world, I desired to mnake a voyage to unknown seas,
and to see with my own eyes some of the wonderful things of which I had heard.
"I heard that there was in the city of Seville
an armada (armade) of five ships, which were ready
to perform a long voyage in order to find the shortest way to the Islands of Moluco (AMolucca) from
whence canle the spices.  The Captain General of
this armada was Ferdinand de Magagleanes (Magellan), a Portuguese gentleman, who had made several voyages on the ocean.  tIe was an honorable
man. So I set out from Barcelona, where the Emperor was, and traveled by land to the said city of
Seville, and secured a place in the expedition.
" Tle Captain General published ordinances for
the guidance of the voyage.
Ile willed that the vessel on which he himself
was should go before tlhe other vessels, and that the
others should keelp in sight of it. Therefore he hung




"THE WONDERS OF NEW LANDS."


63


by night over the deck a torch or faggot of burning wood which he called a farol (lantern), which
burned all night, so that the ships might not lose
sight of his own.
" He arranged to set other lights as signals in the
night. When he wished to make a tack on account
of a change of weather he set two lights.  Three
lights signified "faster."  Four lights signified to
stop and turn. When he discovered a rock or land,
it was to be signaled by other lights.
"He ordered that three watches should be kept
at night.
"On Monday, St. Lawrence Day, August 10th,
the five ships with the crews to the number of two
hundred and thirty-seven * set sail from the noble
city of Seville, amid the firing of artillery and came
to the end of the river Guadalcavir (Guadalquivir).
We stopped near the Cape St. Vinconet to make
further provisions for the voyage.
" We went to hear mass on shore. There the Captain commanded that all the men should confess
before going any further.
"On Tuesday, September 20th, we set sail from
St. Lucar.
"We came to Canaria (Canaries)."
This account repeats in a different way a part
of the facts we have given.


* The number was larger, about 270.




THE STORY OF MAGELLAN.


Here the young Italian relates his first story,
which is substantially as follows:
THE FOUNTAIN TREE.
Among the isles of the Canaria there is one
which is very wonderful. There is not to be found
a single drop of water which flows from any fountain
or river.
" But in this rainless land at the hour of midday, every day, there descends a cloud from the sky
which envelops a large tree which grows on this
island.
" The cloud falls upon the leaves of the tree, when
a great abundance of water distills from the leaves.
The tree flows, and soon at the foot of it there
gathers a fountain.
" The people of the island come to drink of the
water. The animals and the birds refresh themselves there."
The story is true so far as relates to the fountain
tree. But that a cloud comes down from Heaven
at midday to refresh it, is not an exact statement
of the manner in which this tree furnishes water to
the sterile island. The young Italian writer describes
the tree as he saw it, and as it seemed to be. The tree
that supplies water as from a natural fountain may
still be found.
With such a tree to begin his researches on the sea,
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65


the marvelous ocean way. All the world was to him
as he saw it; he seldom stopped to inquire if appearances were true.
With men like Del Cano on board, who had ears
for a marvelous story, his life in the early part of
the voyage must have been a very happy one.
Wonder followed wonder..
"Monday, the 3d of October," says the interesting Italian, "we set sail making the course auster,
whichl the Levantine mariners call siroc (southeast)
entering into the ocean sea. We passed Cape Verde
and navigated by the coast of Guinea of Ethiopia,
where there is a mountain called Sierra Leona. A
rain fell, and the storm lasted sixty days."
They canle to waters full of sharks, which had
terrible teeth, and which ate all the people whom
they found in the sea, alive or dead. These were
caught by a hook of iron.
ST. ELMO'S FIRE.
Here good St. Anseline met the ships; in the
fancy of tlhe mariners of the time, this airy saint
appeared to favored ships in the night, and fair
weather always followed the saintly apparition. He
came in a robe of fire, and stood and shone on the
top of the high masts or on the spars. The sailors
hailed him  with joy, as one sent from  Heaven.
Happy was the ship on the tropic sea upon whose
rigging the form of good St. Anseline appeared in




THE STORY OF MAGELLAN.


the night, and especially in the night of cloud and
storm!
To the joy of all the ships good St. Anseline came
down one night to the fleet of Magellan. The poetical Italian tells the story in this way:
" During these storms, the body of St. Anseline
appreared to us several times.
"One night among others he came when it was
very dark on account of bad weather. -le came in
the form of a fire lighted at the summit of the main
mast, and remained there near two hours and a half.
"This comforted us greatly, for we were in tears,
looking for the hour when we should perish.
When the holy light was going away from us
it shed forth so great a brilliancy in our eyes that
we were like people blinded for near a quarter of an
hour. We called out for mercy.
Nobody expected to escape from the storm.
It is to be noted that all and as many times as
the light which represents St. Anseline shows itself
upon a vessel lwhich is in a storm at sea, that vessel
never is lost.
"As soon as this light had departed the sea grew
calmer and the wings of divers kinds of birds appeared."
Beneficent St. Anseline who manifested his presence by illuminations in the mast and spars in
equatorial waters! Tle beautiflll illusion has long
been explained and dispelled. It is but an electric




"TIIE WONDERS OF NEW LANDS."


fire at the end of atmospheric disturbances. But
it is usually a correct prophecy of fair skies anrd
smooth seas. It is now called St. Elmno's Fire.
If ever there was an expedition that the saint of
the mariners might favor it would seem to be this.
One can almost envy the pious Italian his imagination in the clearing tropic night.
His next wonders were the sea birds, of which
there were flocks and clouds, and with them appeared flying fish.
The ships were now off the coasts of Brazil and
stopped at Verzim.
The people of the Brazilian Verzim were accustomed to paint themselves "by fire."  We do not
clearly understand how this painting " by fire " was
done. The art of scorchingl has perished witl them.
But besides these indelible mnarks, the men had three
holes in their lower lips, and hung in them, after tlhe
manner of earrings, small round ornamental stones,
about a finger in length. The men (lid not shave,
for they plr;ckcd out their beard.
Their only clotling was a circle of parrot
feathers. HTow terribly gay they imust have looked!
And yet such customs were hardly more ridiculous
than those of later times, and more civilized countries-earrings, beauty patches, plume, and snuffboxes.
It was the land of parrots. The most beautiful
and intelligent parrots still come from Brazil. Co



THE STORY OF MAGELLAN.


lumbus saw parrots in " clouds " over the islands of
the Antilles.
Parrots were not expensive in these equatorial
forests at this time. "The natives," says Pigafetta,
" give eight or ten parrots for a looking glass," and
as a looking glass would multiply the picture of parrots indefinitely the Verzimans must have thought
the exchange a marvelous bargain.
If Brazilian parrots were cheap and so charming
as likely to become an embarrassment of riches, so
were the little cat monkeys which (lelighted the men.
Trlese little (reatures, which looked like miniature
lions, still delight the visitors to the coast of Brazil,
but tley sliver up wlen brought to the northern
atmospheres an(ld piteously cry for the home lands
of the sun ag(ain.
Very curious birds began to excite the surprise of
the voyagers, among such as had a " beak like a
spoo('n,1 an(l " no ton()gue."
Tlhe mIarkets of the new land displayed another
comlnodity far more surprising than birds or animals, yoiung slaves, whlichl were offered for sale by
tlheir own ftamlilies. So a familny who had many children wa-s ri1ch. It cost a hatc(llet to buy one of these
and for a lthatclhet a1ld a knlife one mnight buy twco.
Thle people mallde brelad of tle " marrow of trees,"
and carried victuals in baskets on their heads.
iMasses Twere s:i(l for tlhe crews on shore, and the
natives knelt (dowi wJithl tlie men.




" THE WONDERS OF NEW LANDS.'


The people were so pleased with their visitors
that they built a common house for them.
A pleasing illusion had made the sailors most
welcome here.
It had not rained in Verzim for two months
when the expedition landed. The people were looking to the heavens for mercy day by day. But the
copper sun rose as often in a clear sky.
At last Magellan's sails appeared in the burning air. The sight of the sails was followed by that
of clouds.
The people thought that the fleet had brought
the clouds with them.
" They come from Heaven," said they of the adventurers.
So when they were exhorted to accept Christianity, they at once fell down before the uplifted crosses
and believed the teaclings of the sea heroes who
could command the clouds and bring rain to the
parched land.
They thought the ships were gods and tle small
boats the children of such beings, an(d when tlle
latter approached the ships they inmagined that they
were children come home to their fathers or
mothers.
The ships remained in this delightful country of
Verzim thirteen weeks.  Pigafetta and Del Cano
must have thought that life here was ideal. What
scenes would follow?
6




CHAPTER IX.


PINEAPPLES, POTATOES, VERY OLD PEOPLE.
OTHER things were there on the wonderful Brazilian coast.  There the mariners traded in them
and were refreshed with a delicious fruit, called
piqule-pineapples.
They came to the knowledge here of a nutritious
ground fruit called battate.  " This," says our
Italian, "lhas the taste of a chestnut and is the
length of a shuttle."  These ground fruits were
potatoes.
The people here seem to have been very liberal in
trading.
They would give six fowls for a knife-well they
migigt do so, as they used stone implements.
They gave two geese for a comb-here they were
both generous and wise.
They gave as great a quantity of fish as ten men
could eat for a pair of scissors.
And for a bell, they gave a whole basket full of
potatoes (battate).
Marvelous indeed as was this same country of
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PINEAPPLES, POTATOES, VERY OLD PEOPLE.


Verzim, it also abounded in the conditions and atmlospheres of long life.
" Some of these people," says our Italian chronicler, "live to be a hundred or a hundred and twenty,
or a hundred and forty or more. They wear little
clothing."
Which speaks well for pineapples, potatoes, and
easy dress.
"They sleep on cotton nets, which are fastened
on large timbers, and stretch from one end of the
house to another."
It is good to sleep in ample ventilation. We do
not wonder that many of the people passed a hundred years.
The boats of these people were as simple as their
open houses.
" These are not made with iron instruments, for
there are none, but with stones."
The canoes were dug out of one long tree-some
giant growth of the forest which would convey from
thirty to forty men. The paddles for these canoes
resembled shovels. The rowers were usually black
men.
The people ate human flesh, but only at feasts of
triumph. They then served up their enemies.
Pigafetta draws the following grewsome picture:
" They do not eat up the whole body of a man
whom they take prisoner; they eat him bit by bit,
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THE STORY OF MAGELLAN.


up into pieces, which they set to dry before the
chimney. They eat this day by day, so as to keep in
mind the memory of their eneny."
This was indeed the sweet food of revenge, and
as barbarous as it seems, the spirit of revenge secretly cherished is hardly less unworthy when it finds
expression in words that are bitter, if not carnal.
The region abounded with brilght birds, yet with
all these delights, and pineapples and potatoes,
there fell great rains. So there were shadows in
the sunlands.
We can fancy Pigafetta relating his discoveries
on the shore to a susceptible spirit, like Del Cano,
and writing an account of them day by (ay in his
immortal journal.
These strange adventures by sea and on land
which so greatly interested the Italian Knight Pigafetta, our historian, do not seem to have greatly
impressed the mind of Magellan.  The lands had
been sighted before. His wlhole soul was bent on
one purpose-not on rediscovery, but on discovery.
IIe was sailing now wlhere other keels 11ad been. It
was his purpose to find new ways for the world to
follow over unknown seas. IHis heart could find no
full satisfaction but in water courses that sails had
never swept; a new way to the Moluccas that no
ship had ever broken.
Notwithstanding the friendly spirit and liberal
patronage of the Emperor, he still stood against the




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73


world. IIe represented a cast-out name.  His own
countrymen, on his own ships in the long delays on
the voyage to unknown seas, were plotting against
him.
Let us recall in fancy a night scene as the ships
lay on the waters of the meridional world. Magellan
sits alone in one of the castles of the ship and looks
out on the phosphorescent sea.   The stars above
him shine in a clear splendor, and are reflected in
the sea.  The sky seems to be in the waters; the
waters are a mirror of the sky. Among the clear
stars the Southern Cross, always vivid, here rises
high. Magellan lifts to it his eye, and feels the religious inspiration of the suggestion. HIe is a son
of the Church, and he holds that all discoveries are
to be made for the glory of the Cross.
On the distant shores palms rise in armies in
the dusky air. The shores are silent. When arose
the tall people that inhabited them?
Magaellan dreams: he wonders at himself, at his
inward commission; at his cast-out name and great
opportunity.
One of his trusty friends comes to him; he is a
Spaniard and his disquieting words break the serenity of the scene.
" Captain General, it hurts my soul to say it,
but there is disloyalty on the ships-it is everywhere."
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gellan. "Why should it be? The sea and the sky
promise us success. Who are disloyal?"
"Captain G(eneral, they are your own countrymen! "
" And why do they plot treason under the Cross
of discovery? "
" Captain (General, if the ocean open new ways
before you, and you slhuld acllieve all of which you
dream, they will have little share in the glory; you
are facing stormy waters and perils unknown, not
for Portugal, but for Spain."
"Not for Spain alone, nor for Portugal, but for
the glory of the Cross, and the good of all the world.
A divine will leads me, and susta:ins me, and directs
me. I am not seelking gold or fame or any personal
advantage; my soul goes forth to reveal the wonders
and the benevolence of Providence to the heart of
the whole world. I go alone, and feel the loneliness
of my lot. I left all that I had to imake this expedition. It is my purpose to discover unknown seas.
Joy, rapture, and recompense would come to me,
beyond wealth or fame, could my eyes be the first
to see a new ocean world, and to carry back the
knowledge of it to all nations. What happiness
would it be to me to ride on uncharted tides! My
friend, you are loyal to me? "
"Captain General, I am loyal, and the Spanish
sailors are loyal; it is your own men who plot in
dark corners to bring your plans to naught."




PINEAPPLES, POTATOES, VERY OLD PEOPLE.


In the shadow of one of the tall castles of another
ship sit a band of idle men. They are Portuguese.
One of them, who seems to lead the minds of the
others, is whittling, and after a long silence says:
" We do not know where we are going, and
wherever we are going, we are Portuguese a  anre
slaves to Spain."
"Ay, ay," returned an old Portuguese sailor,
"and when we go back again, should that ever be,
the profit to us will be little at the India House."
" Right," answered a number of voices, and one
ventured to say:
"Magellan, after all, may be mad, like his old
companion, the astronomer. Both came from the
same place in Portugal."
Some of the officers had schemes of their own.
But the ships crept on and on, along the Brazilian
coast, where the flag of Spain and the farol guided
them in the track of the Admiral they followed.
Night after night the lantern of the flagship gleamed
in the air, moving toward cooler waters under the
Southern Cross.
And in Magellan's heart was a single purpose,
and he anticipated the joy of a great discovery, as
a revelation that would answer the prophetic light
that shone like a star in his own spiritual vision.
On, and on!




CIIAPTEIR X.


THE FIRST GIANT.-THE ISLANDS OF GEESE AND
GOSLINGS.-TIIE DANCING GIANTS.
TIlE narrative of Pigafetta, the Knight of Rhodes,
has Iucllh Curious lore in regard to giants. At a
place on the coast, formerly called Cape St. Mary,
the first of these giants appeared.
He was a leader of a tribe "who ate human
flesh."'  The lively Knighlt of Rhodes informs us
that this man, who towered above his fellows, " had
a voice like a bull."
I-e canme to onie of the captains' ships and asked
-of course in sign language; for a man may have a
" voice like a bull " and yet fail to be understood in
cannibal tongues-if he might come on board the
ship and bring his fellows with him.
He left a quantity of goods on the shore. While
lie was negotiatingo at the ships, his people on the
shore, who seem to hlave been unusally wise and
prudent, began to remove the stores of goods from
exposure to danger to a kind of castle at some distance.
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The officers of the ships grew inpatient when
they saw the tempting goods being thus removed.
So they landed a hundred men to recover the goods,
which they seemed to have deemed theirs after the
" right of discovery."
The men began to run after the provident natives,
when they became greatly surprised. The natives
seemed to fly over the ground, and leave them behind
at a humiliating distance.
" They did more in one step than we could do at
a bound," says Pigafetta, Knight of Rhodes.
The giant people here showed that there was
need to approach them with caution.  Some time
before, these "Canibali" had captured a Spanish
sea captain and sixty men, who had landed and pastured inland to make discoveries. They ate them
all-a fearful feast!
Our voyagers probably had no desire to go too
far inland in view of such a warning; so they returned and proceeded on their course toward the
antarctic pole.
They discovered two small islands, which had
more agreeable inhabitants than the land of Cape
St. Mary. "These islands," says our good Knight
Pigafetta, "were full of geese and goslings and sea
wolves." lHe adds: " We loaded five ships with them
for an hour."
The Knight has also left us the following
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been very much surprised at being so rudely disturbed:
"The geese are black, and have feathers all over
the body of the same size and shape; and they do not
fly but live on fish, and they were so fat that we
did not pluck them, but skinned them. They have
beaks like that of a crow.
"The sea wolves of these islands are of many
colors and of the size and thickness of a calf, and
have a head like a calf, and ears small and round.
They have teeth but no legs, but feet joining close
to the body, which resemble a human hland. They
have small nails to their feet, and skin between the
fingers like geese.
"If these animals could run they would be very
bad and cruel, but they do not stir from the waters,
and swim and live upon fish."
This seems to be a very admirable description of
a sea wolf, 0 Knight of lhodles!
A great storm came down upon the ships here.
But, marvelous to relate, the fiery body of good St.
Anselmo or Anseline " appeared to us, and immediately the storm ceased."
The fleet sailed away again and came to Port St.
Julian, the true land of the giants, of which place our
Knight has some very interesting stories to tell.
The fleet entered the Port of St. Julian. It was
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Suddenly one day a most extraordinary sight met
the eyes of some of the adventurers. Our Knight's
description of this being is very vivid. He says:
"One day, without any one's expecting it, we saw
a giant who was on the shore of the sea, quite naked,


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singing, he put sand and dust on his head."
The Captain of one of the ships, who first saw this
extraordinary creature, said to one of the sailors:
"Go and meet him. lie dances and sings as a
sign of friendship. You must do the same. Beckon
him to me."




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The Captain himself was on a little island.
The scene that followed must have been comical
indeed.
The giant danced and sung and sprinkled his
llead with sand. The sailor did the same, danced
and sang, and the two approached each other.
So the giant was made to think that he was
among friends. The sailor led him on to the island,
where he met the Captain.
But the lively giant now began to be afraid in
the presence of a new people. IIe seemed to wish
to ask them who they were and whence they came.
Then an answer to this question came to him. He
looked up to the sky and pointed upward with one
finger, saying by signs:
"Did you come down from Ieaven? "
"IIe was so tall," says our descriptive Knight,
"that the tallest of us only came up to his waist."
He was probably hardly taller than many of his
race. Falkner, in his account of Patagonia (1774),
says that lie saw men there seven feet and a half
high.
Of this dancing giant our historian gives a further description in lively and interesting colors:
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around his eyes were rings of yellow, and he had
two hearts painted on his cheeks. lie had but little
hair on the top of his head, which was painted white.
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had thrown over him the skin of a certain beast,
which skin was very carefully sewed."
The skin was that of a guanaco, a kind of llama.
Our historian thus describes the guanaco:
" This beast has its head and ears of the size of
a mule, and the neck and body of the fashion of a
camel, the legs of a deer, and the tail of a horse,
and it neighs like a horse. There are great numbers of these animals in the same place."
Patagonia is the land of these strange animals,
which are still found there, and are hunted by Indians who lie upon the ground with drawn bows.
The animal has great curiosity, and he draws near
this living snare and is killed. When tamne he is an
interesting companion, but if angered he suddenly
emits a great quantity of offensive liquid from his
nose, like a half bucket of water, which he throws
upon the offender. lie is the South American
camel.
This giant when he made himself readly to meet
the adventurers had shoes of leather or skins, and
carried a bow made of the " gut of a beast " and a
bundle of cane arrows feathered, at the end of
which were small white stones.
" The Captain caused food and drink to be given
to him.
"Then the crew began to show him some of the
presents they had brought, among them a lookingglass."




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When the giant saw himself in the glass he was
filled with wonder. It was as though his own ghost
had appeared to him. There were men behind him
curious to see how lie would be affected. Hle leaped
back with such force as to tumble them over. They
were but pirgmies to him.
The Captain now gave the giant two bells, a mirror, a comb, and beads, and sent him back to the
shore.
One of the giants of the country saw him coming back, ran to the habitation of the giants, and
sunmmoned the giant people to the shore to meet
him. They caine, almost naked, leaping and singing, and pointing upiward to Ieaven. What a sight
it must have been!
The women were laden with goods. The sailors
beckoned tlhem to the ships to trade.
Queerly enough, the women brought with them
a baby or little guanaco, which tlley led by a string.
Our historian learned that when these giants wished
to capture the old guanacos or camels they fastened
one of the little guanacos to a bush, and the old ones
came to the bush to play with it, and so became an
easy prey.
"Six days afterward, our people going to cut
wood," writes the Knight, ' saw another giant, who
raised his hands toward Heaven.
" When the Captain (General came to know of it,
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83


him to one of the little islands in the port.  This
giant was of a better disposition than the other, and
was a gracious and amiable person. He loved to
dance and leap. When he leaped, he caused the
earth to sink to a palm's depth at the place where
his feet touched."
The good giant remained for a time with the
adventurers.  They gave him the name of John.
They learned himi to pronounce the name of Jesus.
"Say Pater Noster," said they.
"Pater Noster," said the giant.
" Say Ave Maria," said the men.
"Ave Maria," said the susceptible giant.
They miade him presents when he went away,
among them some of the many tinkling bells.
" We must capture some of these people," said
the Captain, " and take them to Spain for wonders."
So the explorers began to study how to secure
some interesting specimens of these tall people, to
excite the wonder of the people of Spain.




CIAPTER XI.


CAPTURING A GIANT.-MAGELLAN S DECISION.
TIE attemp)ts to capture wild giants greatly
interested Pigafetta.
Our historian says that it was "done by gentle
and cunning means, for otherwise they would have
done a hurt to some of our men."
One day somes sailors saw four giants hidden in
some buslhes, and they were unarnmed.     They
brouglht these into the power of the Captain. Two
of them were y(ung, and such as would excite admiration anywhere for their noble development.
They gave these two lusty young ITerculeses as
many knives, mirrors, bells, and trinkets as they
could hold in their hands, and while the delighted
youths were thus abounding in riches, the Captain
said:
"Now show them the iron fetters."
The two youths could but wonder at these when
they were brought.
The Captain ordered that the fetters be presented
to them.
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But their hands were already full. What could
they do with them? WAhere could they put them?
The Captain signified to them that he would ornament their feet with the fetters. To tlis they consented.
So the fetters were put on the feet of each of
them, like necklaces or rings, but whlen the young
giants saw a blacksmith bring a hanmmer and rivet
the fetters, they began to be distrustful and presently greatly agitated. They tried to walk, but they
could not move.
Our historian thus describes their fury when they
saw tlat they were helplessly bound:
"Nevertheless when they saw the trick which
had been played on them they began to be enraged,
and to foam like bulls, crying out to the devil to help
them." We do not see why our Knilght should have
taken this view of tle case; we would think that
two human beings whlo had been so treacherously
deceived, might lhave been regarded as appealing to
the Deity of justice.
"Thle hands of the other two giants were bound,"
says the original narrative, "but it was with great
difficulty; tlhen the Captain sent them back on shore,
with nine of his men to conduct them, and to bring
thle wife of one of those who had remained in irons,
because he regretted her greatly." This last touch
gives us a very favorable view of this young giant.
But on being conducted away, one of the two
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giants lwho were to be liberated, untied his hands
and escalped. As soon as he found that he was
free, his feet were picked up nimbly indeed. He
flew, as it were, his long strides leaving his late
cap)tors far behind him. lie had no heart to trust
Europeans again.  He rushed to his native town,
but he found only the women there, who must
]have been greatly alarmed; the men had gone to
hu nt.
-le ruslledl after the hunters to tell themi how his
companllions lllad been betrayed.
What beclllae of the other giant whose hands
were bound(? lie struggled, too, to break the cords,
seeing which, one of the men struck him on the
head. I-e became quiet when he saw that he was
hell)less, and led tle men to the giant's town where
the wolmlen and( children were.
Trlle men concluded to pass the night there, as it
was near nighlt and everything there looked harmless and inviting.
But durin  tle nit the other giant who had
gone to mleet the hunters returned with his companions. These saw the bruised head of the giant
who had also been bound, and warned the women
who began to run. We are told that the youngest
"ran faster than the biggest" and that the men
"ran faster than horses," at which we can not
wonder. The fleeing giant shot one of the men from
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CAPTURING A GIANT.-MAGELLAN'S DECISION.  87


poor giant in irons who had lamented for his wife
probably never saw the giantess again.
The methods of treating sickness in the town of
the giants were curious. For an emetic one ran a
stick down his throat. For a headache, one cut a
gash on the forehead, not unlike the old method of
bleeding. The philosophy of this latter treatment
was interesting-blood did not remain with pain,
and pain departed with blood-quite true; white
people have advanced theories as conclusive.
" When one of them dies," says our Knight, " ten
devils appear and dance around the dead man." One
of the poor giants who was forced to remain on
board said lie had seen devils with horns, and hair
that fell to their feet, who spouted fire.  There
seems to be the color of the European imagination
in this statement.
The giants lived on raw meat, thistles, and sweet
root, and one of them drank a " bucket of water " at
a time.
The expedition remained at St. Julian five
months, and acquired much information about the
country from the captive giants with whom they
learned to talk by sign language.
They here set up a cross on a mountain and took
p)ssession of the country in the name of the King of
Spain. They called the signal elevation where they
planted the cross the Mount of Christ.
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Patagonia delighted in exciting the wonder of their
visitors. Many of these people who thought that
the Europeans had come down from the sky, where
they conceived all life must be wonderful indeed,
liked to show them some of the feats that the people
of the earth could do. The people who came down
from the sky they reasoned had great wisdom in
sailing the seas, but they were not giants. They
could trail a lahtern along the sea in the night air
in some unaccountable way, but they did not know
how to run with flying feet on the land or how to
wing arrows with unerring aim into tlhe sky and sea.
One day there came from a company of the primitive people, a champion in an art of which the Europeans could have never heard. T'ley had seen these
people run, leap, and vault with almost mnagic power,
but they had never seen one who could mlake a tube
of himself.
This new champion approached tlie men in the
usual way, inviting attention.  IIe carried in his
hand an arrow which was a cubit and a half long.
He tilted it, opened his great mouth to receive
it, dropped it into his throat, when, amid muscular contortions, it began to descend. The sailors
watched him with amazement as it went down. It
disappeared at last, having, as we are told, descended to the " bottom of his stomach." It seemed
to cause him no pain.
Presently the quiver began to appear again. The
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CAPTURING A GIANT-MAGELLAN'S DECISION.  89


long arrow slowly rose out of the human tube which
the man had made of himself, and dropped into his
hand at last, the whole being performed by muscular movement.
tIe must have been deligllted at the sensation
iwhich this mental control over the muscles of digestion had produced.  It was less strange that the
arrow should have gone down than that it should
have come up algain.
Such feats as these entertained the sailors from
time to time when they were on shore. Pigafetta
was now seeing the " wonders of the world " indeed.
Magellan's mind was given to the more serious
problellls of the voyage.
The Antarctic pole star now rose to his view. It
was cold. MIagellan saw that the voyage would be
likely to list long.
Not only the Portiuguese came to distrust him,
but so(le of the Spanish sailors caughlt the infection of tlhe deleterious atmosphere. They reasoned
differently from the Portuguese.
"The Adm:liral is a native of Portugal," said they,
"and thoulgh the Portuguese court rejected him, he
will be sure in the end to be true to his own people
anld King. lie will never allow the glory of his discoveries to go to Spain."
Somne of them camel to him to say that the wind
blew cold, that the sea was full of perils, that noth



90          THE STORY OF MAGELLAN.
ing but disaster could come by pushing on into the
sea where they were tending.
"Turn south," said they.
The answer of Magellan was royal and loyal. We
give it in what, from what was reported of it, must
be in his own thought, and very nearly his own
words.
"Comrades, my course was laid down by Caesar
(the King) himself. I-will-not-depart-from-it
-in-any-degree.    I will open to C(sar an unknown world."




CHAPTER XII.


THE MUTINY AT PORT JULIAN.-TIIE STRAITS.-1519.
DAYS of mutiny came in the cold waters.
The spirit of disloyalty that had found expression in the inspector broke out anew at Port St.
Julian. It spread through the officers and crews of
three of the ships. These caused to be published the
resolution that they would sail no farther.
" You are leading us to destruction," said the
mutineers.
Luis de Mendoza, Captain of the Victoria, the
treasurer of the expedition, was a leader of the
mutiny. Another disturbing spirit was Gasper de
Queixada, Captain of the Concepcion.
Magellan, of the kind heart, had, as we have seen,
the resolution to meet emergencies. This expedition was his life. It must not be opposed, hindered,
or thwarted.  He lived in his purpose.  He must
stamp out the mutiny. THe no more used gentle and
courteous words. He thundered his will.
One day Ambrosia Fernandez, his constable,
came to him, and said:
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" Three crews are ready to mutiny, to force you
to go back."
Magellan saw that he must make the leaders of
these ships his prisoners, or that lie would become
theirs.
"Constable," lie said, " pick out sixty trusty men
and arm them well.   Go with them on board the
treasurer's slilp, and arrest Mendoza and lay him
dead on the deck."
The fleet was moored in line. It was flood tide,
and AMendoza's ship rode astern of Magellan's, and
the slilp of Queixada, ahead.
Mtagellan p)repared his own crew to face the consequences of a tragedy should one occur. I-e ordered
his hlawser to be attached to the cable, and( called
his crew to arms.
Whlen the flood tide was at its heighlt, Fernandez,
the constable, prepraed to execute his order.
lie appIeared before the slip of the mutinous Mendoza, and asked to be received on board.
"Back to your own ship," said the mutineer. " I
conlillland the Victoria."
" But we are few against many," said the constable, " andl I have a message from the Admiral
whicl I must deliver."
IIe was lelped on board the Victoria.
His feet had no sooner touched the deck than he
seized Mendoza.
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The armed men that the constable had left on the
boat ruslhed on board.
The crew of the Victoria stood aghast. They
saw the power of the Admiral's mind.
Magellan broughlt his ship alongside the Vict oria.
HTe led his armed crew on board the Victoria,
and halted before a terrible scene. Mendoza hlad
been stabbed by the constable, and the crew of the
Victoria plead for mercy, and promised to be loyal
to the Admiral.
In this hour of tragedy and terror Magellan bore
his ship around to Queixada's, and made the officers
and crew of the Concepcion his prisoners. Th leaders of the mutiny were executed. It was a necessity.
Magellan caused also the sentence le lhad imposed on the inspector and his accollmplice to be
carried out here.
Cartlagena and Sanclies were led from their
prison to the shore.
As the sails were being lifted to depart, they
were marooned-left with some provisions, among,
which were some bottles of wine, on the desert
slhore.
'Tlere were hearts that pitied them as the shlips
sailed away. There was one who plotted to rescue
them. It was Gormez.
They left them solme biscuits with the bottles of
wine.




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" It is the last bread they will ever eat," said their
companions.
" And the last wine that they will ever drink,"
said a loyal priest on board.
But there was one on board that shook his head.
If he could have his will the two would eat bread
and drink wine again in the convents of beautiful
Seville.
The execution of the disloyal Spaniards again
awakened the jealousy of Gormez. IHe probably
began to plan about this time to separate the Antonio
from the expedition, and lead her back to Spain.
lis heart was withl the inspector and friar far away
on the desolate shore.
Tlhe ships sailed away, and the marooned priests
saw themi dissappear.
They were cast aside for opposing a madman,"
reasoned Gormez. " Magellan is no fit leader of an
expedition. If I had full command of the Antonio,
I would rescue the inspector, if I wvere to find him
alive."
1But he could not take the Antonio back while
Mesquita, Ma gellan's loyal cousin, was in command.
Iad( lie breathed a breath of disloyalty in the presence of this Portuguese, lie might have himself been
deposed from his position and marooned, as had
been the inspector and the friar.
A dark plot began to form in the pilot's mind.
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hour of peril, he might cause him to be imprisoned
on his own ship, and then he could succeed to the
command, and take the Antonio back to Spain.
And he would also endeavor to rescue the inspector and the friend of the inspector who had
been marooned. If he could rescue them and take
them back with him to Spain, they would be powerful witnesses for him against Magellan.
Gormez now waited his opportunity. A jealous
man seeks for a principle of life to ease his conscience and justify evil deeds. Gormez had two
principles to sustain him in his disloyalty. The one
was that he could lead a better expedition, and the
other the merciful rescue of his two companions
who had been marooned for the same opinions that
he had from the first carried in his heart. So calling treachery, loyalty and sympathy, he awaited an
hour favorable to his plan.
If he could return to Spain he would offer his
services to Portugal or to Spain to lead an expedition to the Spice Islands that slould be conducted
in some more promising way than by the winter
seas.
As the ships sailed on into the clouds and cold,
the sailors were filled witl apprehension. But the
farol still shone at night like a star in the changing
atmosphere. They had expected that the extremity
of South America would point West, but this was
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It was the middle of October. The water grew
colder and the land became more desolate. Suddenly a bay appeared and the continent seemed to
part.  The sea poured its tides to the East amid
towering mountains, and a strait appeared, which
now bears the name of Mag-ellan.
The soul of the Admiral thrilled. It was the fulfillment of his visions.  IIe called the opening to
the swift channel Cape Virgins, as he discovered
it on the day on which the (Clurch commnemorated
the martyrdoml of the "eleven thousand virgins."
His lone lantern entered the straits. The way
was toward the East.
Magellan seint the ship Antonio, which was coinmanded by his cousin Alvaro de Mesquita, to explore the bay, of which ship Gorn:ez still held the
position of pilot. The mutineer's hour had come.
The pilot entered tle bay, but presently a powerful tide carried the ship back, and beyond the sight
of the flag and the lantern of Magellan.
The jealous Portuguese llad seen enough to know
tlhat great perils were before the fleet or that a
g-lory like to tllat of C(olullbus was now likely to
fall to tile lot of Magellan. Hl-e determined to be
revenged upon the Adumiral for supplanting him in
accepting the favors of the King.
Ile called the crew secretly about him.
" You are rushing on to ruin," le said. "I can
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let us return. Mesquita advised Magellan to execute
our comrades!"
The crew, overcome by the perils of the situation,
obeyed the pilot.
Mesquita was placed in irons, and the pilot bore
the Antonio away from the wintry seas, and turned
her prow toward Spain.
But untrue as the sailors were to Magelllan, he
was true to them.   He delayed the expedition for
their return, and sent out the Victoria in search of
them.   The Victoria's crew planted signal standards, under which were letters.
Now perhaps for the first time Magellan was
master of the expedition. IIe supposed at first that
the Antonio had become lost in the terrible tides,
but he still suspected treachery.
As the fleet entered the straits, the lhills at nilght
blazed with fires. The explorers thought these fires
were volcanoes. They were signal fires kindled by
the natives. Magellan gave the place thle name of
Tierra del Fuego "-the " Land of Fire," a name
that it still bears.
The water ran icy cold. Peaks of crystal towered
above the straits, and the sublimities of mnountain
desolations everywhere appeared.  So amid awful
chasms of the sea, now white with snows, now dark
with shadows, the little fleet glided on, the farol in
tle air at night, and all eyes strained witli wonder
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What must have been the reflection of Magellan
as the mysteries of the new world lifted before his
eyes?
Joy is the compensation of suffering, and if his
happiness wa s as great as his trials had been, he
must have indeed known thrilling moments. Hle had
dared, and he had achieved.
He wondered at the fate of the Antonio, as the
days went by. I-e indeed thlought her lost, but yet
hoped that she might appear.
" She has deserted us," ventured a loyal officer.
No," reasoned the Admiral. " Mesquita would
never desert me."
IIe was righlt. There were many true hearts that
made the voyalge like Del Cano's, but no heart was
truer to Magellan than Mesquita's; and true hearts
know and love each other.
The slips glided on slowly, without the Antonio.
They had two new passengers in the giants whose
lives must have been filled with wonder on shipboard.




CHAPTER XIII.


TIIHE ADMIRAL WAS MAD! "
GRAVE as was the act of treachery that the
jealousy of Gormez led him to commit, he was true
to the two marooned priests who had opposed the
daring schemes of Magellan.
" We must not leave them to perish," lie said.
So with Mesquita in irons he steered his ship
toward the lonely islands where the crew had passed
the winter.
They found Carthagena and his brother monk
still living, and never could two men have been more
glad to escape from exile.  To live among naked
giants, whom they could not civilize, must have become a horror to them. But their lives had been
spared, thouglh their biscuits and wine, we fancy,
were gone.
"The Admiral has gone mad," said the men who
had come to rescue them. " He knows not the way
to the Moluccas, nor to anywhere."
The marooned men asked them where they were
now going.
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"To Spain," was the answer. " We have come
to rescue you. Our Captain has never forgotten you.
I-e will need you as witnesses. You must testify
that the Admiral is lmad."
They were ready to testify that.
Tle ship sailed back to Spain.
The tales that they carried back to beautiful
Seville caused a great disappointment in Spain.
'They must have stricken the heart of the wife of
Magellan.
(Gormez related there that the Admiral had become mad; that he had marooned the two priests
whomi they had brought back as witnesses of the
truth of what lie asserted; that Magellan had sailedl
into winter seas, and quite lost his reason, and knew
net where he ewas going.
Then lie told a terrible story of the execution of
the mutinous Spaniards, friends of the King, at St.
Julian. IIe said:
"IIis cousin, Mesquita, our captain, advised these
crimes, and so we put himi in irons, and have brought
himn back to receive justice in Spain."
AMesluita protested his innoc(ence and tried to gain
credence for his case. But no( one (cared to listen to
him. The court and the popular feeling were against
hlim. Ie was consigned to a prison. It was useless
for hlim to protest, and to say that MAagellan had made
a great discovery; that lie had found straits which
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likely to prove that the ocean that Balboa had beheld was continuous.
I-e was placed in a lonely dungeon, and there
brooded over his wrongs and dreamed.
He had one hope; it was that Magellan would
return triumphant, a second Columbus or Vasco da
Gania. If that day were to come, he would be released, and the court would honor him, and he would
be hailed as a hero.
"I have been made a prisoner by treachelry," he
said to a few men. "I believe that the day of my
vindication will one day dawn."
Cardinal Ximenes died. Juana still watched by
the tomb of her husband, and took no interest in the
world. Charles V was entering upon his career as
a conqueror who was to subdue the Roman world
to his will. 
As for Magellan in Spain le was to be but little
more remembered now. Spain believed the story
of the jealous Gormez, and the mariners of Seville
said(:
" The Admiral was mad! "
In the common view the mad Adlliral had gone
down in Antarctic seas. Like Faleiro, his frienl,
who had been sent to the mad house, it was thoulht
tlhat his brain had become unsettlel, and that his
bright visions had failed.
Tlhe two mutineers ate bread and drank wine
again in the convent bowers of Seville.
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G-ormez had schemes of his own. Ite desired the
authority of the throne to make an expedition to the
Spice Islands, which he believed he could find by
sailing West. Strangely enough, as we have said,
this jealous, treacherous man was afterward made a
pilot in an expIedition that visited Florida, Cape Cod,
and Massachusetts Bay. But he did not find the
way to thle Spice Islands on the voyage.
3I-esquita, still believing in the success of the
expedition of Magellan, said to a few whom he could
reac l:
" 3Magllan is not niad. Ite executed those who
hald planned to murder him. lie had to put to death
tlese lmen for the sake of the expedition. lie will
return agaiil! 
Fewl believed his story, and fewer his prophecy.
Still tlhere were somne who hoped that the prisoner's prophecy mnight prove true. Columbus was
deemelld naild, and quelled a muttiny, but he returned
again. Vasc(o d  Gamna faced doubt and destruction, but lie returned again. There were not wanting somle whlo asked, " Will Magellan ever return
again? "  Such usually received the answer, " The
Admiral was mad!"
Th'1e poor wife of Magellan, who had hoped much
fromn himu for the sake of her child, as well as for
Spain, heard these rep)orts in an agony of grief. But
she still hoped. She must have believed in her husband's destiny.




CHAPTER XIV.


THE PACIFIC.-THE DEATI OF TIIE GIANTS.
THE four ships glided along the wonderful straits
which Magellan named the " Virgins," but which
will always bear his own name. The scenery continued wild and fierce, and in some places overawing
and sublime; they sailed amid domes of crystal and
almost under the roofs of a broken world. They
still moved slowly-the scenery growing more and
more wonderful.
The air grew brighlt again. The ships were in
tle sea. They had entered a sea broad and glorious,
but which Maglellan could have hardly dreamed to
be nearly ten thousand miles long, and more than
that wide! Its waters were placid-an ocean plain.
Columbus had heard of this vast sea, and Balboa
had seen it from the peak of Darien.
All the joy that Magellan had anticipated in his
visions of years now burst upon him.
"The Pacific!"
This was the name that came to him as he surveyed the new ocean world. He was the discoverer
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of the South Pacific, which was continuous with the
ocean discovered by Balboa. What did it contain?
Whither might he sail over the new serenity of
waters?
His soul had stood against his own country; his
name had been cast out by his countrymen. But in
the splendors of the sunset sea he had found his
faith to be reality. It is said that the sailors wept
when they belheld the Pacific.
We may fancy the joy of Del Cano.
We Ilmay imagine how the heart of Pigafetta, the
younng Italian, which had always been true to the
Ad(iral, must have overflowed with deliglt when
tle Pacific opened before his eyes! There is a strong
heart beat in the happiness of one who has been true
to a successful man in the hour of his need.
lie may have sung the song that cheered Columbus and his men-the mariners' hymnL to the Virgin:
"Gentle Star of Ocean!
Portal of the sky!
Ever Virgin Motler
Of the Lord most high! 
"elednesday, the 20th of November, 1520," says
the original narrative, " we came fortl out of the
same strait, and entered the Pacific Sea."
The ships sailed on into the calm mystery of the
ocean, the soul of Aagellan glowing. But though
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placid and full of promise, but starvation now stared
him in the face, and after the spectre of Treason had
departed that of Famine appearel.
Day after day the sun arose on the same serenity
of sea.  One month passed, and still there spread
before the ships the same infinite ocean. Another
month passed, and another, and twenty days more.
Iow did the crews live on this long voyage of
silence and calms?
The narrative says: "We only ate old biscuit
reduced to powder, and full of grubs, and we drank
water that had turned yellow and smelled."
But a more perilous diet had to be followed.
They ate the " ox hides that were under the main
yatrd." To eat these hides they had to soak them
for some days in the sea, and then cook them on
embers.
They ate sawdust; then the vermin on the ships.
A worse condition came. The gums of the men
swelled from such food, so that many of them could
not eat at all, and nineteen died. Beside those who
died, twenty-five fell ill of " divers sicknesses."
Kind-hearted Pigafetta, who was always true to
the Portuguese Admiral, formed an intimacy with
the poor young giant, presumably with the giant
whose wife had been left behind. This giant was
imprisoned on the flagship of Magellan.
One day the giant said to him, helplessly:
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Our Italian understood that this must be the Patagonian word for bread. So he wrote it down, and
the giant saw that he was interested in the meaning
of his native words.
So the young giant began to teach the young
Italian.
Her-demn  " meant a chief.
"  oli " meant water.
"Ohone," a storm.
"Setebos," the Unseen Power.
They studied together for a time, and shared each
other's good will.
One day the Italian drew a cross on paper. The
young giant raised it to his lips and kissed it,
as he had seen Pigafetta kiss the sign of the
Cross.
But he said by signs: "Do not make the Cross
again, else Setebos will enter into you and kill
you."
The meaning of the cross was explained to him.
The poor giant fell ill at last, amid all the misery.
"Bring me the Cross," he said by signs.
He kissed it again.
He knew that lie would soon die.
" Make me a Christian," he said.
They named him " Paul," and baptized him.
One day found him dead, and they cast his great
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called conversion was the heart's cry in helplessness.
The other giant may have lived to see the days
of famine, when men shrank and death threatened
all. Then lie, too, famisled and died, and found a
grave in the sea. Another account, makes this
giant die on the Antonio before that ship went back
to St. Julian.
Two islands only appeared in tlhe months of
steady sailing. They were uninlabited except by
birds. The sky in all this time brought no storm.
In these days of ocean solitude, hunger, and
death, Magellan was sure always of the faith of two
true hearts-the susceptible Italian and D)el Cano.
Magellan dreamed of the fate of Mfesquita in
these strange experiences, and Mesquita in hlis lonely
prison thought continually of him. WTould Magellan ever return? the latter must lave asked dalily.
If so, his prison doors might swing open. He had
no other hope, but this hope was a star. Magellan's
wife must have shared this hope with the prisoner.




CIAPTER XV.


WELCOME TO TIIE PHILIPPINES!
ON Wednesday, March 6th, Magellan sighlted
islands. Iis lantern had crossed the Pacific Ocean.
Iere lhe hoped to find food.  Ile approached the
shores eagerly. So hungry were the crews that one
of the sick men begged that if any of the natives
were killed human flesh migllt be brought lhim.
But the natives here were not only wild Tnen,
tlhey were robbers; they sought to kill the voyagers
and to steal everything'. -Ienle, Magellan called
the islands the Ladrones (robbers).
The robbers tlhrew stones at the famishinc mariners as the ships turned away in search of more
hospitable shores.  The women were dressed in
bark.
The ships moved on into unknown seas.
On Saturday, March 16, 1521, a notable sight
appeared in tlie dawn of the morning. It was a
high bluff, some three hundred leagues distant from
the Thieves' Islands. The island was named Zamal,
now called Samar.
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habited by a friendly people.  lie determined to
land there for the sake of security, as le could there
gather sea food and care for the sick. He planted
lis tents there, and provided the sick with fresh
meat.
Where was he?
Here surely was a new archipelago which had
found no place on a map. March 16, 1521, was to be
a notable date of the world.
He had discovered the Philippine Islands, though
they were not tlen known by that name.   They
were the door to China from the West-this he could
hardly have known.
Tle islands as now known consist of Luzon,
fifty-one thousand three hundred square miles in
extent; and AMendanao, more than twenty-five thousand miles in extent. The islands lying between
Luzon and Mendanao are called the Bissayas, of
which Samar has an area of thirteen thousand and
twenty miles. MIagellan visited AIendanao and tlen
sailed for Zebu, a small island where the first Spanish settlement was made, before Manila, which was
founded in 1581.
Thi s archipelago was a new world of wonder.
Tlhe small islands are now computed to number
fourteen hundred. Magellan never knew the extent
of his discovery.
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The people here were to receive him with open
arms; to feast him; to raise his expectations and to
bow down before the Cross. We must describe in
detail-thanks to the Italian who was true to the
heart of the Admiral-this golden age of the
troubled life of iMagellan.
After all the stru<ggle for so many years against
many overwhelming oppositions, Magellan now rose
into the vanta,e ground of success, and fulfilled the
vision which had illumined his soul in his darkest
hours.
Every man has a right to his record, and whatever might happen now, his record no power could
destroy; lie had discovered the Pacific Ocean, and
a new way around the world. Whatever might be
his fate, tlhe world must follow his lantern.
On the 18th of March, 1521, after dinner on
shore, the Admiral saw a boat coming out from
a near island toward his ship. There were men
in it.
"Let no one move or speak," saild Magellan.
The crews awaited thle coming of the strangers
in the blazing sunlight of the tropic sea. The Indians landed, led by a chief.
They were friends. They signified by signs their
joy at seeing them. Magellan feasted the Indians
and gave them presents.
When these people saw the good disposition of
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" more than a foot long." On leaving they promised
to return with fruits.
Pigafetta, our Italian Chevalier, vividly describes
the scenes that followed between Magellan and the
friendly people of the newly-discovered islands,
which we call the Philippines, but which were not
so named at that time.
He tells us in a wonderfully interesting narrative a translation of which we closely follow:
" That people became very familiar and friendly,
and explained many things in their language, and
told the names of some islands which they beheld.
The island where they dwelt was called Zuluam, and
it was not large. As they were sufficiently agreeable and conversible the crews had great pleasure
with them. The Captain seeing that they were of
this good spirit, conducted them to the ship and
showed them specimens of all his goods-that he
most desired-cloves, cinnamon, pepper, ginger, nutmeg, mace, and gold.
" He also had shots fired with his artillery, at
which they were so much afraid that they wished
to jump from the ship into the sea. They made
signs that the things which the Captain had shown
them grew there.
"When they wished to go they took leave of the
Captain and of the crew with very good manners
and gracefulness, promising to come back.
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named Humunu; but because the men found there
two springs of very fresh water it was named the
Waterincg Place of Good Signs. There was much
white coral there, and large trees which bear fruit
smaller than an almond, and which are like pines.
There were also many palm trees both good and bad.
In this place there were many circumjacent islands,
on which account the archipelago was named St.
Lazarus. This region and archipelago is in ten
degrees north latitude, and a hundred and sixty-one
degrees longitude from the line of demarcation.
"Friday, the 22d of March, the above-mentioned
people, who had promised to return, came about midday with two boats laden with the said fruit, cochi,
sweet oranges, a vessel of palml wine, and a cock, to
give us to understand tlat they had poultry in their
country." The Italian thus describes the habits of
the people:
" The lord of these people was old, and had his
face painted, and had gold rings suspended to his
ears, which they nanme ' schione,' and the others
had many bracelets and rings of gold on their arms,
with a wrapper of linen round their head. We remained at this place eight days; the Captain went
there every day to see his sick men, whom he had
plactd on this island to refresh them; and he gave
them himself every day the water of this said fruit,
the cocho, which comforted them much."
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where there is a kind of people " who wear holes in
their ears so large that they can pass their arms
through them "-a very remarkable statement" and these people go naked, except that round their
middles they wear cloth made of the bark of trees.
But there are some of the more remarkable of them
who wear cotton stuff, and at the end of it there is
some work of silk done with a needle. These people
are tawny, fat, and painted, and they anoint themselves with the oil of cocoanuts and sesame to preserve them from the sun and the wind. Their hair
is very black and long, reaching to the waist, and
they carry small daggers and knives, ornamented
with gold."
Pigafetta fell into the sea here, and he gives a
vivid account of the personal accident:
"The Monday of Passion week, the 25th of
March, and feast of our Lady, in the afternoon, and
being ready to depart from this place, I went to the
side of our ship to fish, and putting my feet on a
spar to go down to the storeroom, my feet slipped,
because it had rained, and I fell into the sea, without any one seeing me; and being near drowning, by
luck I found at my left hand the sheet of the large
sail which was in the sea, I caught hold of it and
began to cry out till some came to help and pick
me up with the boat. I was assisted not by my
merits, but by the mercy and grace of the Fountain
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west and southwest, and passed amid four small
islands; that it to say, Cenalo, Huinanghar, Ibusson,
and Abarien."
The Italian describes in an interesting way the
visit of the King of one of the islands to the ships.
Ile says of this first visit of a Philippine King to the
Europeans:
"Thursday, the 28th of March, having seen the
night before fire upon an island, at the morning we
came to anchor at this island, where we saw a small
boat which they call boloto, with eight men inside,
which approached the slhip of the Captain General.
Then a slave of the Captain's, who was from Sumatra, otherwise named Traplrobana, spoke from
afar to these people, wlho understood   his talk, and
came near to the side of the ship, but they withdrew
immediately, and would not enter the ship from fear
of us.
"So the Captain, seeing that they would not
trust to us, showed tllemll a red cap and other things,
which le had tied anld placed on a little plank, and
the people in the boat took them immediately and
joyously, and then returned to advise their King.
Two hours afterward, or thereabout, we saw come
two long boats, which they call ballanghai, full of
men.
"In the largest of them was their King sitting
under an awning of mats; when they were near the
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to the King, who understood him well, because in
these countries the kings know more languages than
the common people. Then the King ordered some
of his people to go to the Captain's ship, while he
would not move from his boat, which was near
enough to us.
"This was done, and when his people returned to
the boat, he went away at once. The Captain made
a good entertainment to the men who came to his
ship, and gave them all sorts of things, on which
account the King wished to give the Captain a
rather large bar of solid gold,:ln  a chest full of
ginger. lowever, the Captain thanked him very
much, but would not accept the present.  After
that, when it was late, lie went with the ships near
to the houses and abode of the King."
The Captain in refusing the offer of (old and
ginger fronm his guest, slowed indeed a true sense
of hospitality.  The incident pictures the life of
Magellan. He obeyed his moral sense and his heart
was true. HIe was a Portuguese gentleman of the
old type, and presented an example worthy of imitation in any age.




CHIATTFER XVI.


THlE VISIT OF T11lE KI NG.-PLGALFETTA VISITS
T IlIE,, KILNG.
THEY were ready to meet, the Kiing- now, when all
'Was so friendly and promishig. The grood soul of
Piga,,,fetta felt thait these islands of fruits and spicerics were inoleedl an earthily pa~radlise. l~e alone had
not been sick]% in all of the long, monotonous voyaq(e across the Ptacific.  His strengrth had never
aba ted and his faith in the AdmiiralI had never faltered.
Nighlt after nighit lie had watched the lantern
swinging in the unk~nowvn air, and had saidl his
pravers. I ITe h a d had ever a cheering word to say
to the Admiiral on all oc cason.His heart was true,
to the lanterin, the sta~rs, the Admiral, and the Divine
IPower which lie believed wNas leadlingr him.
le was -now in the sea g~ardenis of lpalfms and]
spices. Ilie thusr,, continues his narrative (wie follow
in part the tralislation of the Ilaki~nyt Society in the
work. of Lord Stanley Alderley).
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Good Friday, the Captain sent on shore a slave, who
was an interpreter, to the King to beg him to give
him for money some provisions for his ships, sending
him word that he had not come to his country as an
enemy, but as a friend. The King on hearing this
came with seven or eight men in a boat, and entered
the ship, and embraced the Captain, and gave him
three China dishes covered with leaves full of rice,
and two dorades, which are rather large fish. The
Captain gave this King a robe of red and yellow
cloth, made in the Turkish fashion, and a very fine
red cap, and to his people he gave knives and mirrors.  After that refreshments were served up to
them. The Captain told the King, through the interpreter, that he wished to be with him, as cassi cassi;
that is to say, brothers.  To which the King answered that he desired to be the same toward him.
After that the Captain showed him cloths of different colors, linen, coral, and much other merchandise, and all the artillery, of which he had some
pieces fired before him, at which the King was much
astonished; after that the Captain had one of his
soldiers armed with white armor, and placed him
in the midst of three comrades, who struck hin with
swords and daggers.
"The King thought this very strange, and the
Captain told him, through the interpreter, that a
man thus in white armor was worth many common
men; he answered that it was true; he was further
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informed that there were in each ship two hundred
like that man.
" After that the Captain showed him a great number of swords, cuirasses, and helmets, and made two
of the men play with their swords before the King;
he then showed him the sea chart and the ship compass, and informed him how he had found a strait,
and of the time which he lhad spent on the voyage;
also of the tim  he hhad been without seeing any
land, at which the King was astonished. At the
end the Captain asked if he would be pleased that
two of his people should go with him to the places
where they lived to see some of the things of his
country. This the King granted, and I went with
another."
The Italian was again in his element, and he
gives a graphic account of his visit to the natives:
"When I had landed, the King raised his hands
to the sky, and turned to us two, and we did the
same as he did; after that he took me by the hand,
and one of his principal people took my companion,
and led us under a place covered with canes, where
there was a ballanghai; that is to say, a boat, eighty
feet long or thereabouts, resembling a fusta. We sat
with the King upon its stern, always conversing with
him by signs, and his people stood up around us,
with their swords, spears, and bucklers. Then the
King ordered to be brought a dish of pig's flesh and
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first raise their hands to Ieaven, then take the
drinking vessel in their right hand, and extend the
left hand closed toward the people. This the King
did, and presented to me his fist, so that I thought
that he wanted to strike me; I did the same thing
toward him; so with this ceremony, and other signs
of friendship, we banqueted, and afterward supped
with him."
The Italian was a pious man, but he says:
"I ate flesh on Good Friday, not being able to do
otherwise, and before the hour of supper, I gave several thinogs to the King, which I had brought. There
I wrote down several things as they name them in
their language, and when the King and the others
saw me write, and I told them their manner of
speech, they were all astonished.
"When the hour for supper had come, they
brought two large China dishes, one of which was
full of rice, and the other of pig's flesh, with its
broth and sauce. We supped with the same signs
and ceremonies, and then went to the King's palace,
which was made and built like a hay grange, covered with fig and palm leaves."
Here the two found delightful hospitality; the
house was "built on great timbers high above the
ground, and it was necessary to go up steps and
ladders to it. Then the King made us sit on a cane
mat, with our legs doubled as was the custom; after
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in pieces, and ginger fresh gathered that moment
and some wine. The eldest son of the King, who
was a Prince, came where we were, and the King
told him to sit down near us, which he did; then
two dishes were brought, one of fish, with its sauce,
and the other of rice, and this was done for us to
eat with the Prince.  My companion enjoyed the
food and drank so much that he got drunk. They
use for candles or torches the gum of a tree which
is named anilne, wrapped up in leaves of palms or
fig trees. The King made a sign that he wished to
go to rest, and left us with the Prince, with whom
we slept on a cane mat, with some cushions and
pillows of leaves.  Next morning the King came
and took me by the hand, and so we went to the
place where we had supped, to breakfast, but the
boat came to fetch us. The King, before we went
away, was very gay, and kissed our hands, and we
kissed his. There came witl us a brother of his,
the King of another island, accompanied by three
men.   The Captain General detained him to dine
with us, and we gave him several things."
"The King abounded in gold, and was a grand
figurle. In the island belonging to the King who
came to the ship there are mines of gold, which they
find in pieces as big as a walnut or an egg, by seeking in the ground. All the vessels which he makes
use of are made of it, and also some parts of his
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custom of the country, and he was the handsomest
man that we saw among these nations. He had very
black hair coining down to his shoulders, with a
silk cloth on his head, and two large gold rings
hanging from his ears; he had a cloth of cotton
worked with silk, which covered him from the waist
to the knees; at his side he wore a dagger, with a
long handle which was all of gold, his sheath was of
carved wood. Besides he carried upon him scents
of storax and benzoin. He was tawny and painted
all over."
An island where nuggets of gold as big as eggs
could be found must have offered a tempting place
of residence.
But Magellan's first thoughlt was for the good
of the souls of this hospitable people.




CHAPTER XVII.


EASTER SUNDAY.-MAGELLAN PLANTS THE CROSS.
Now begins the dawn of Christianity in the
Philippines. Ma-gellan was a deeply religious man,
and Pigafetta was a Christian Knight. Magellan
saw the significance of his marvelous voyage, and
his soul glowed with gratitude to Hleaven.
Easter Sunday approached. Magellan had made
preparations to plant a cross on a mountain overlooking the sea.
Easter Sunday fell on the last day of March.
"The CaIptain," to follow the Italian's narrative in
part, "sent the Chaplain aslore early to say mass,
and tle ilnterpreter went with him to tell the King
that they were not comning on shore to dine with
him, but only to hear the mass.
"When it was time for saving mass the Captain
went ashore with fifty men, not with their arms, but
only with their swords, and dressed as well as each
one was able to dress, and before the boats reached
the shore our ships fired six cannon shots as a sign
of peace.
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"At our landing the two Kings of the islands
were there, and received the Captain in a friendly
manner, and placed him between them, and then we
went to the place prepared for saying mass, which
was not far from the shore."
The ceremonies that followed were dramatic.
"Before the mass began the Captain threw a quantity of musk-rose water on those two Kings," is the
picture drawn by the Italian, "and 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. The ships fired all their artillery at the elevation of the body of our Lord."
The scene that followed discloses the religious
nature of Magellan and his joy in what was ennobling.
IHe caused a great cross to be lifted, "with the
nails and crown, to which the Kings nmade reverence." lie told the Kings that lie wished to place it
in their country for their profit, " because if there
came afterward any ships from   Spain to those
islands, on seeing this cross, they would know that
we had been there, and therefore they would not
cause them any displeasure to their persons nor their
goods; and if they took any of their people, on showing them this sign, they would at once let them go."
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in the same spirit. He told them that it was necessary that this cross " should be placed on the summit of the highest mountain in their country, so that
seeing it every day and night they might adore it."
He further told them that if they did thus, " neither
thunder, lightning, nor the tempest could do them
hurt."  This he believed to be true. The Kings
"thanked the Captain, and said they would do it
willingly." The Captain asked them how they worshiped.  They answered that " they did not perform any other adoration, but only joined their
hands, looking up to Heaven, and that they called
their God Aba. Hearing this, the Captain was very
joyful; on seeing that, the first King raised his hands
to the sky and said that he wished it were possible
for him to be able to show the affection which he felt
toward him."
The elevation of the Cross followed.
"After dinner we all returned in our dress coats,
and we went together with the two Kings to the
middle of the highest mountain we could find, and
there the Cross was planted."
Important information followed.
"After the two Kings and the Captain rested
themselves, and, while conversing, I asked where
was the best port for obtaining victuals. They replied that there were three; that is to say, Ceylon,
Zubu, and Calaghan; but that Zubu was the
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offered to give him pilots to go to those ports, for
which he thanked them, and deliberated to go
there, for his ill-fortune would have it so. After the
cross had been planted on the mountain, each one
said the Paternoster and Ave Maria, and adored it,
and the Kings did the like.  Then he went dgown
below  to where their boats were.     There the
kings had brought some of the fruit called cocos
and other things to make a collation and to refreshl us."
The fleet sailed away soon after Easter Monday,
the (Captain having secured native pilots from the
Kings. One of the Kings volunteered to act himself as pilot, and this service was accepted.
Pigafetta desc ribes the use of betel:
"This kind of people are gentle, and go naked,
and are painted. T'ley -wear a piece of cloth made
fron a tree, like a linen cloth, round their body to
cover their natural parts; they are great drinkers.
The women are dressed in tree cloth from their
waists downward; their hair is black, and reaches
down to the ground; they wear certain gold rings
in their ears. These people chew most of their time
a fruit which tliey call areca (betel), which is something of the slape of a pear; they cut it in four
quarters, and after they have chewed it for a long
time they spit it out, from which afterward they
have their mouths very red. They find themselves
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freshes them much, for this country is very hot, so
that they could not live without it."
The use of the areca, or betel nut, is still coimmon in all the Philippine Islands.
The fleet next went to Maestral, " passing through
five islands-Ceylon, Bohol, Canighan, Baibai, and
Satighan. In the Island of Satighan was a kind of
bird called barbarstigly, which was as large as an
eagle. Of these we killed only one," says our narrator, " because it was late. We ate it, and it had
the taste of a fowl. There were also in this island
doves, tortoises, parrots, and certain black birds as
large as a fowl, with a long tail. Tley lay eggs as
large as those of a goose. These they put a good
length under the sand in the sun, where they were
hatched by the great heat which the heated sand
gives out; and when these birds were hatched they
pushed up the sand and came out. These eggs are
good to eat.
" From this island of Mazzubua to that of Satighan there are twenty leagues, and on leaving
Satighan we went by the west; but the King
of Mazzabua could not follow us; therefore we
waited for him near three islands; that is to say,
Polo, Ticobon, and Pozzon.    When the King
arrived he was much astonished at our navigation; the Captain General bade him come on
board his ship with some of his principal people,
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went to Zubu, which is fifteen leagues off from
Satighan."
The story of the Italian here, which we so freely
use, leaves in the mind a picture of the first voyage
among the Philippines. The habits of the people in
these same islands are not greatly changed, but we
hardly find there now as tractable kings as were
those to whom Magellan left the Cross.




CHAPTER XVIII.


CHRISTIANITY AND TRADE ESTABLISHED.-THE
BAPTISM OF THE QUEEN.
ON April 9th they entered the Port of Zubu, on
approaching which they saw houses in the trees.
The Captain hung out his flags in the clear sunny
air. He caused his artillery to be fired, which greatly
alarmed the natives. He then sent an interpreter
to the King.
The interpreter found the people in terror at the
thunder of the guns. He assured the King that the
salute had been made in his honor. Then the interpreter said:
"My master is the greatest King in all the world.
We are sailing at his command to discover the Spice
Islands. But we have heard of your fame, and the
fame of your country, and have come to visit you."
"You are welcome," said the King, "but you
must pay me tribute."
"My master," said the interpreter, "is the greatest of all Kings, and we can pay tribute to no
one."
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The King feasted them, and they entered into
negotiations of peace with the King of Zubu.
At Zubu Magellan turned missionary with no
common zeal.
He told the native princes that his visit was for
the sake of peace.
We are told that the " Captain General sat in a
chair of red velvet, and near him were the principal
men of the ships sitting in leather chairs, and the
others sat on the ground on mats.
"The Captain," says the narrative, "spoke at
length on the subject of peace, and prayed God to
confirm it in Heaven. These people replied that they
had never heard such words as these which the Captain had spoken to them, and they took great pleasure in hearing them. The Captain, seeing then that
those people listened willingly to what was said to
them, and that they gave good answers, began to
say a great many good things to induce them to
become Christians.
" Ie told them how God had made Heaven and
earth and all other things in the world, and that he
had commanded that every one should render honor
and obedience to his father and mother, and "that
whoever did otherwise was condemned to eternal
fire."
His teaching bore immediate fruit.
"The people heard these things willingly, and
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and show them the Christian faith, and they would
entertain them well with great honor. To this the
Captain answered that for the moment he could not
leave any of his people, but that if they wished to
be Christians that his priest would baptize them, and
that another time he would bring priests and teachers to teach them the faith."
His manner of teaching reveals his heart:
" The people told him that they wished to consult their King in regard to becoming Christians."
The friends of the Captain "wept for the joy which
they felt at the good-will of these people, and
the Captain told them not to become Christians
'from fear of us, or to please us, but that if they
wished to become Christian they must do it willingly, and for the love of God, for even though
they should not become Christian, no displeasure
would be done them, but those who became Christian would be more loved and better treated than
the others.' Then they all cried out with one voice
that they did not wish to become Christians from
fear, nor from complaisance, but of their free
will."
Here the true character of the man again appears
-few  Christian explorers ever made so noble a
record. His sincerity won the hearts of the natives:
" At last they said they did not know what more
to answer to so many good and beautiful words
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selves in his hands, and that he should do with them
as with his own servants."
The next scene is ideal:
" Then the Captain, with tears in his eyes, embraced them, and, taking the hand of the Prince and
that of the King, said to him that by the faith he
had in God, and to his master the Emperor, and by
the habit of St. James which he wore, he promised
them to cause them to have perpetual peace with
the King of Spain, at which the Prince and the
others promised him the same."
It is a pleasure to follow such a narrative as
Pigafetta here writes in illustration of the character
of a true Christian Knight. Compare this narrative with the history of Pizarro, Cortes, and De Soto.
Magellan was a Las Casas, a Marquette, a La Salle.
The next incident told by Pigafetta has as fine
a touch as a portrayal of character. It relates to a
mlessage which Magellan sent to the King, with a
present.
"When we came to the town we found the King
of Zubu at his palace, sitting on the ground on a
mat made of palm, with many people about him.
"ITe had a very heavy chain around his neck,
and two gold rings hung in his ears with precious
stones.
"He was eating tortoise eggs in two china
dishes, and lie had four vessels full of palm wine,
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obeisance, and presented to him what the Captain
had sent him, and told himn through the interpreter
that the present was Iot as a return for his prescnt
which he had sent to the Captain, but for the affection
which he bore him. This done, his people told him all
the good words and explanations of peace and religion which he had spoken to them."
We now behold Magellan in a new attitude, as a
missionary teacher, a John the Baptist in the wilderness. Pigafetta thus describes the scene:
"On Sunday morning, the fourteenth day of
April, we went on shore, forty men, of whom two
were armed, who marched before us, following the
standard of our King Emperor. When we landed
the ships discharged all their artillery, and from
fear of it the people ran away in all directions.
"Magellan and the King embraced one another,
and then joyously we went near the scaffolding,
where the Captain General and the King sat on two
chairs, one covered with red, the other with violet
velvet. The principal men sat on cushions, and
others on mats, after the fashion of the country.
"Then the Captain began to speak to the King
through the interpreter to incite him to the faith of
Jesus Christ, and told him that if he wished to be
a good Christian, as he had said the day before, that
he must burn all the idols of his country, and, instead of them, place a cross, and that every one
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hands joined to Heaven; and he showed him how he
ouglt every day to make the sign of the Cross.
"To that the King and all his people answered
that they would obey the commands of the Captain
and do all that he told them. The Captain took the
King by the hand, and they walked about on the
scaffolding, and when he was baptized he said that
he would name him Don Charles, as the Emperor his
sovereign was namLed; and he named the Prince Don
F'ernand, after the brother of the Emperor, and the
King- of IMazzava, Jehan; to the Moor he gave the
name of Christolpher, and to the others each a name
of his fancy. Thus, before mass, there were fifty men
baptized."
The baptismn of the Queen followed.
"Our Chllllain ald some of us went on shore to
baptize the Queen. Sle caime with forty ladies, and
we conducted them onto the scaffolding; then made
her sit down on a cushion, and her womnen around
her, until the priest was ready. During that time
they slowed her an iumage of our Lady, of wood, holding her little child, which was very well made, and a
cross. Wlen she saw it, she had a greater desire to
be a Christian, a, asking for baptism, she was baptized and named Jellanne, like the mother of the
Emperor. The wife of the Prince, daughter of this
Queen, had the name of Catherine, the Queen of
Mazzava Isabella, and to the others each their name.
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men, women, and children. The Queen was young
and hardsome, covered with a black and white
sheet; she had the mouth and nails very red, and
wore on her head a large hat made of leaves of
palm, with a crown over it made of the same leaves,
like that of the Pope. After that she begged us to
give her the little wooden boy to put in the place of
the idols. This we did, and she went away. In the
evening the King and Queen, with several of their
people, came to the sea beach, where the Captain
had some of the large artillery fired, in which they
took great pleasure. The Captain and the King
called one another brother."
The "little boy" spoken of was an image of the
infant Christ. The figure was preserved until the
year 1598, when the Spaniards sent missionaries to
the place who gave it a place in a shrine and named
a city for it.
The naming of the Queen at her baptism for
poor Juana, or " Crazy Jane," the incapable mother
of Charles V, who was watching beside her dead
husband in Granada, and who had signed the commission of Magellan by proxy, completes a tale of
missionary work in a somewhat ideal way. If these
people did not maintain their faith, the work reveals
the intention of Magellan, and shows the nobility
of character of the Christian Knight.




CIIAPTER XIX.


HALCYON DAYS.
THESE were indeed days of joy.  The glory of
them grew. All the inhabitants of the island came
to be baptized.  Magellan went on shore daily to
hear mass.
It was Pigafetta who gave to the Queen the
image of the infant Christ, which became historical.
On one of the occasions that Magellan went on
shore to hear mass he met the Queen, who appeared
in a veil of silk and gold. Ie sprinkled over her
some rose water and musk, and noticed that she
cherished the image of the infant Christ.
"You do well," said he. "Put it in the place
where your idols were; it will keep in your mind
the Son of God."
"I will cherish it forever," said the veiled Queen.
She seems to have kept her word.
The joy of these scenes reached their height,
when the King of Seba swore fealty to the King of
Spain.
The scene of the conclusion of this ceremony was
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knightly indeed, and again reveals the heart of
Magellan.
He, seeing a good spirit of the King of Seba, resolved to swear fealty of eternal friendship to him.
Only a Christian Knight would have dreamed of
such a thing.
"I swear," he said, "by the image of our Lady,
the Virgin, by the love of my Emperor, and by the
insignia on my heart, that I will ever be faithful to
you, O King of Seba!"
Here the true character of the statesman as well
as teacher appeared. History records few acts more
noble. Magellan sought the good of mankind.
There was one officer on the ships whose soul,
like that of Pigafetta's, must have been in all these
benevolent efforts.
The expedition was tarrying long, seeking the
glory of the Cross rather than the gold and spices.
There were impatient hearts in Seville.
Mesquita in his still prison, with the world
against him, dreamed of Magellan, Del Cano, and the
Italian historian. The half world separated them
nor.
In his dreams Mesquita saw the fleet coming
back again, and he heard the shouting of the people
and the ringing of the bells. The star of hope in his
heart did not fail.
" Padre," he said, " the day of my vindication will
come."




138         THE STORY OF MAGELLAN.
But the seasons came and went, and the light
changed color in the window of his cell, and the
birds sang their notes in the trees in spring and left
their empty nests to silence in the retreating summrer. The great Cathedral grew, and the achievement of Charles had begun to excite the world.
We now come to the tragedy of this wonderful
expedition; to the tempest that rose out of the calm.
The transition from these ideal scenes to what is
to follow is sudden indeed.




CHAPTER XX.


THE DEATH OF MAGELLAN.
MAGELLAN, as we have shown, had souglht not
wealth, nor glory, but the good of the world in his
life. He was ever ready to put his own interest aside
in the service of that which was best for others. lie
had sought welfare and not wealth, service and not
self, and his life was about to end in the unselfish
spirit in which it had lived.
On Friday, April 26, 1520, Zula, one of the great
chiefs of the Island of Matan, sent to 3Magellan one
of his sons and two goats as a present. HIe had
promised his service to the King of Spain, but this
surrender of royalty had been opposed by another
chief named Silapalapa.  This chief had declared
with native spirit that Matan would never submit
to the Spanish King
" But I can overthrow Silapalapa," ran the Matan
chief's message, " if I can have your help. Send me
a boatload of men.   Let them  come to-morrow
night."
Magellan received the message and the presents
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in a friendly feeling, and resolved to follow the
chief's lead.
" I will not send another on this expedition so
full of peril," he thought. " I will lead it myself."
So lie set out from Zubu to Matan at midnight,
with sixty mlen, in corselets and helmets. He took
with him the Christian King, and the chief men of
his new adherents.
The boats moved silently over the tropic waters
under the moon and stars. Magellan had become a
happy man. I-e could not doubt that he was on his
way to new victories. Pigafetta, the Italian, always
true to the Admiral, was with him.
The expedition arrived at Matan just before the
dawn of the morning.
The mellow nature of MIagellan came back to him
on this short night journey.  Ile had no wish to
slaugllter men.
So le spoke to a Moorish merchant.
" Go to the natives, " le said, " and tell them if
they will recognize a Christian King as their sovereign I will become their friend. If not, that they
must feel our lances."
The MIoorish ambassador was landed, and met
the chiefs.
" Go tell your master," they said, "that if he has
lances, so have we, and our lances are hardened by
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gave the order to disembark, and forty-nine men
leaped into the water.  They faced a fierce army,
some fifteen hundred in number.
Magellan divided his followers into two bands.
The musketeers and cross bowmen began the attack.
But the firing was not effective. The black army
moved down upon them like a cloud, throwing javelins and spears hardened with fire. Some of them
singled out Magellan. They threw at him lances
pointed with iron.
Magellan, seeing that the odds were against him
in such a contest, sought to break their lines by firing
their houses. Some thirty houses burst into flame.
The sight of the fire maddened the natives and
rendered them furious.  They discovered that the
legs of the invaders were exposed, and that they
could be wounded there with poisoned arrows.
A poisoned arrow was aimed at Magellan.  It
pierced him in the leg. He felt the wound, and knew
its import.
He gave orders to retreat. A panic ensued, and
his men took to flight.
The air was filled with arrows, spears, stones,
and mud.
The Spaniards tried to escape to the boat. The
islanders followed them and directed their fury to
Magellan. They struck him twice on his helmet.
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He stood at his own post fighting that they might
make safe their retreat.
He thus broke the assault for nearly an hour,
until he was almost left alone.
An Indian suddenly rushed down toward him
having a cane lance. He thrust this into his face.
Magellan wounded the Indian, and attempted to
draw his sword.   But he had received a javelin
wound in his arm, and his strength failed.
Seeing him falter, the Indian rushed upon him
and brought him down to the earth with a rude
sword.
The Indians now fell upon him and ran him
through with lances.
He tried to rise up, to see if his men were safe.
He did not call for assistance, but to the last sought
to secure the safety of his men. In fact, he never
seemed to so much as think of himself in the whole
contest. It was thus that his life went out, and his
heart ceased to beat. He was left dead on the sand,
on April 27, 1521. The natives refused to surrender
his body. Eight of his own men and four Indians,
who had become Christians, perished with him.
There was one man who was true to the Admiral
to the end. He was wounded with him, but survived. He it was that saw that the Admiral had
forgotten himself at the hour of the final conflict.
It was Pigafetta, the Italian, whose narrative we
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This hero of the pen says of him to whom he
gave his heart:
"One of his principal virtues was constancy in
the most adverse fortune."
"It was God who made me the messenger of the
new heavens and new earth, and told me where to
find them," said Columbus. " Maps, charts, and
mathematical knowledge had nothing to do with
the case."
As sublime an inspiration is seen in the words of
Pigafetta in regard to Magellan:
" No one gave to hin the examlple howo to enicomipass
the globe."  His sight was the inner eye, the pure
vision of a consecrated purpose in life.
No hero of the sea has ever been more noble!
His purpose in life was everything; he had the faith
of a Christian Knight; he was as nothing to himself, but to others all, and he died giving his own
body for a shield to his men. His name will always
be associated with what is glorious in the history
of the Philippines.
Magellan was dead, but a good purpose lives in
others. Magellan dead, Del Cano yet lives, and the
Italian historian has other scenes to record.
The farol of Magellan will go on; it will never
cease to shine, and the cast-out name of the Christian
Knight will become a fixed star amid the lights that
have inspired the world.




CHAPTER XXI.


TIHE SPICE ISLANDS.-W-ONDERFUL BIRDS.-CLOVES,
CINNAMON, NUTMEGS, GINGER.-THES SHIPS OVERLOADED.
TIlE massacre at 5Matan caused the Spaniards
to lose credit in the eyes of the natives. The King
of Seba turned against them, thus throwing a
shadow on the glory of Magaellan's missionary work.
The Spaniards were, how ever, much to blame for the
change that took place in the King's heart.
Their ships were becoming unseaworthy.
They were reduced to two ships, the Victoria and
the Trinidad, and these shaped their course for the
Moluccas, or Spice Islands, by the way of Borneo.
I)el Cano began to represent the spirit of Magellan
among the crews.
They came to the Bornean city, Brunei, "a collection of houses built on piles over the water, where
were twenty-five thousand fires or families."  On
the shore was the palace of a voluptuous Sultan, its
walls hung with brocades of silk. Here was also
one of the most curious markets in all the world,
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carried on at high tide, when there gathered a great
army of canoes.
On November 8, 1521, the two ships anchored off
Tidor on the Spice Islands, saluting the King of the
place with a broadside.
They concluded a treaty of peace with the King,
and began to load the two ships with spice, and
especially with cloves, a kind of spice at that time
regarded as a great luxury in Spain.
If Pigafetta had desired above all things to see
the wonders of the ocean world, he must again have
been gratified here at some of the presents sent to
the ships by the natives. Columbus had brought to
Spain gorgeous parrots or macaws. But the King
of Batchian sent to him a bird whose plumage surpassed anything that he had ever seen.
"It is the bird of Paradise," said the agent of the
royal almoner.
The Italian did not doubt it. He wished to learn
the history of this superb inhabitant of the air.
tIe did in a way that excited his wonder beyond
measure.
The bird, after the Mohammedan account, was
born in Paradise. It came down from Heaven where
dwelt departed souls, who had died true to the Moslem faith.
These birds were found dead, and they had no
feet. If Pigafetta inquired the cause of this, he
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"They do not need feet; they never alight on the
ground."
But as greatly as the Chevalier must have wondered, he was not induced to accept the Moslem
faith.
They overcrowded the ships while receiving the
favors of the Sultan of Tidor.
An account of their voyage about the Spice
Islands, "most delightful to read," as we are
told in the title, was written by one Maximilianus
Transylvanus, fronm which we gather the following
incidents (Hakluyt Society) of great pearls and
strange men:
"They came to the shores of the Island of Solo,
where they heard that there were pearls as big as
dove's ekggs, and sometimes as hen's eogs, but which
can only be fished up from the very deepest sea.
Our men brought no large pearl, because the season
of the year did not allow of the fishery. But they
testify that they had taken an oyster in that region,
the flesh of which weighed forty-seven pounds. For
which reason I could easily believe that pearls of
that great size are found there; for it is clearly
proved that pearls are the product of shellfish. And
to omit nothing, our men constantly affirm that the
islanders of Porne told him that the King wore in
his crown two pearls of the size of a goose's egg.
" Hence they went to the Island of Gilo, where
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they reached to their shoulders.  When our men
were mightily astonished at this, they learnt from
the natives that there was another island not far
off where the men had ears not only pendulous, but
so long and broad that one of them would cover the
whole head if they wanted it (cum exusu essct). But
our men, who sought not monsters but spices, neglecting this nonsense, went straight to the Moluccas,
and they discovered them eight months after their
Admiral, Magellan, had fallen in Matan.   The
islands are five in number, and are called Tarante,
Muthil, Thidore, Mare, and Matthien; some on this
side some on the other, and some upon the equinoctial line.
" One produces cloves, another nutmegs, and another cinnamon. All are near to each other, but
small and rather narrow."
The world to-day thinks little of spices, for conmmerce has made common the luxuries of the Indian
Ocean. Cloves, nutmegs, allspice, cinnamon, ginger
are found in every home in all civilized lands, and
even children make few inquiries about them.
This was not so in the early days of the Viceroys
of India. Spices which were gathered and sold by
Arabian merchants, were held in Europe as a gift
of Arabia, and esteemed to be the greatest, or among
the greatest of luxuries. A ship laden with spices was
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was welcomed in the days of Sir Francis Drake.
It used to be said that the odors of the spice ships
from the East Indies could be breathed through the
breezes that wafted them toward the land.
The principal Spice Islands were the Moluccas,
or the islands of the East India Archipelago between
Celebes on the west and New Guinea on the east,
Timor on the south and the open Pacific Sea on the
north. They are distributed over a wide ocean area.
Of these the Moluccas form the principal group.
Here are the paradises of the seas.
It was to these islands where could be procured
the products of " Araby the Blessed " that Magellan
had hoped to find a new way. There were brighter
shores than Spain, and to these he sought the
shortest routes over which ships could travel.
The Peruvian adventurers wished to find gold;
the voyagers to the Antilles, magical waters and new
productions of the earth; but Magellan's dream was
of the spiceries of the Indian seas. They all found
what they sought, except Ponce de Leon, who hoped
to find the Fountain of Eternal Youth.
Transylvanus speaks of another wonderful bird
that only alighted at death, and whose feathers were
believed to possess magic powers.
" The kings of Marmin began to believe that souls
were immortal a few years ago, induced by no other
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nor upon anything that grew upon it; but they sometimes saw it fall dead upon the ground from the sky.
And as the Mohammiedans, who traveled to those
parts for commercial purposes, told them that this
bird was born in Paradise, and that Paradise was the
abode of the souls of those who had died, these
kings (reguli) embraced the sect of Mohammed, because it promised wonderful things concerning this
abode of souls. But they call the bird Mamuco
Diata, and they hold it in such reverence and religious esteem that they believe that by it their
kings are safe in war, even though they, according
to custom, are placed in the forefront of battle."
He continues his narrative:
"But, our men having carefully inspected the
position of the Moluccas and of each separate island,
and also having inquired about the habits of the
kings, went to Thedori, because they learnt that in
that island the supply of cloves was far above that of
the others, and that its King also surpassed the
other kings in wisdom and humanity. So, having
prepared their gifts they land, and salute the King,
and they offer the presents as if they had been sent
by Caesar. He, having received the presents kindly,
looks up to Heaven, and says:
"' I have known now for two years from the
course of the stars, that you were coming to seek
these lands, sent by the most mighty King of Kings.
Wherefore your coming is the more pleasant and
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grateful to me, as I had been forewarned of it by
the signification of the stars.
"'And, as I know that nothing ever happens to
any man which has not been fixed long before by
the decree of fate and the stars, I will not be the one
to attempt to withstand either the fates or the signification of the stars, but willingly and of good
cheer, will henceforth lay aside the royal pomp and
will consider myself as managing the administration
of this island only in the name of your King.
Wherefore draw your ships into port, and order the
rest of your comrades to land; so that now at last,
after such a long tossing upon the seas, and so many
dangers, you may enjoy the pleasures of the land
and refresh your bodies. And think not but that
you have arrived at your King's kingdom.'
" Iaving said this, the King, laying aside his
crown, embraced them one by one, and ordered
whatever food that land afforded to be brought. Our
men being overjoyed at tlis, returned to their comrades, and told them what had happened.  They,
pleased above measure with the friendly behavior
and kindness of the King, take possession of the
island. And when their health was completely restoredl, in a few days, by the King's munificence, they
sent envoys to the other kings, to examine the
wealth of the islands, and to conciliate the other
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" Tirante was the nearest, and also the smallest,
of the islands; for it has a circumference of a little
more than six Italian miles. Matthien is next to it,
and it, too, is small. These three produce a great
quantity of cloves, but more every fourth year than
the other three.  These trees only grow on steep
rocks, and that so thickly as frequently to form a
grove. This tree is very like a laurel (or bay tree)
in leaf, closeness of growth, and height; and the
gariophile, which they call clove from its likeness to
a nail (clavus), grows on the tip of each separate
twig. First a bud, and then a flower, just like the
orange flower is produced.
"The pointed part of the clove is fixed at the
extreme end of the branch, and then growing slightly
longer, it forms a spike. It is at first red, but soon
gets black by the heat of the sun. The natives keep
the plantations of these trees separate, as we do our
vines.  They bury the cloves in pits till they are
taken away by the traders."
H-e also describes the cinnamon tree:
" Muthil, the fourth island, is not larger than the
rest, and it produces cinnamon. The tree is full of
shoots, and in other respects barren; it delights in
dryness, and is very like the tree which bears pomegranates. The bark of this splits under the influence
of the sun's heat, and is stripped off the wood; and,
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" Near to this is another island, called Bada,
larger and more ample than the Moluccas. In this
grows the nutmeg, the tree of which is tall and
spreading, and is rather like the walnut tree, and
its nut, too, grows like the walnut; for it is protected by a double husk, at first like a furry calix,
and under this a thin membrane, which embraces
the nutlike network. Tllis is called the Muscat
flower with us, but by the Spaniards mace, and is
a noble and wholesome spice. The other covering
is a woody shell, like that of a hazelnut, and in
that, as we have already said, is the nutmeg."
And ginger:
Ginger grows here and there in each of the
islands of the archipelago. It sometimes grows by
sowing, and sometimes spontaneously; but that
which is sown is the more valuable. Its grass is like
that of the saffron, and its root is almost the same
too, and that is gin(er."
While sailing among these bowery ocean gardens,
and gathering their odorous products, the poetic
Maximilianus was presented with one of the immortal birds that protected a hero in battle, "the
bird of God."
Hle thus speaks of the rare present:
" Our men were kindly treated by the chiefs in
turn, and they, too, submitted freely to the rule of
Cassar, like the King of Thidori. But the Spaniards,
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each (spice) home, but to load the ships with cloves,
because the crop of that was the most abundant that
year, and our ships could contain a greater quantity of this kind of spice. Having, therefore, loaded
the ships with cloves, and having received letters
and presents for Caesar from the Kings, they make
ready for their departure. The letters were full of
submission and respect.  The gifts were Indian
swords, and things of that sort. But, best of all, the
Mamuco Diata; that is, the bird of God, by which
they believe themselves to be safe and invincible
in battle.  Of which five were sent, and one I obtained from the Captain (coJinr an pricgh1i), which I
send to your reverence, not that your reverence may
think yourself safe from treachery and the sword
by means of it, as they profess to do, but that you
may be pleased with its rareness and beauty. I send
also some cinnamon and nutmeg and cloves, to show
that our spices are not only not worse, but more
valuable than those which the Venetians and Portuguese bring, because they are fresher."
He also relates the disasters which fell to one of
the overloaded ships:
"When our men had set sail from Thedori, one
of the ships, and that the larger one, having sprung
a leak, began to make water, so that it became necessary to put back to Thedori. When the Spaniards
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other ship should sail to the Cape of Cattigara, and
afterward through the deep as far as possible from
the coast of India, lest it should be seen by the Portuguese, and until they saw the promontory of
Africa which projects beyond the tropic of Capricorn, and to which the Portuguese have given the
name of Good Hope; and from that point the passage to Spain would be easy.
"But as soon as the other ship was refitted it
should direct its course through the archipelago,
and that vast ocean toward the shores of the continent which we mentioned before, till it found that
coast which was in the neighborhood of Darien, and
where the southern sea was separated from the
western, in which are tle Spanish Islanlds, by a very
narrow piece of land. So the ship sailed again from
Thedori, and, having gone twelve degrees on the
other side of the equinoctial line, they did not find
the Cape of Cattigacra, which Ptolemy supposed to
extend even beyond the equinoctial line; and when
they had traversed an in-nense space of sea, they
came to the Cape of Good Hople and afterward to the
Islands of the Hesperides.
"And, as this ship let in water, being much
knocked about by this long voyage, the sailors, many
of whom had died by hardships by land and by sea,
could not clear the ship of water. Wherefore they
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"But as our men had no money, they offered,
sailor fashion, cloves for the slaves.  This matter
having come to the ears of the Portuguese who were
in command of the island, thirteen of our men were
thrown into prison.  The rest were eighteen in
number.
" Frightened by the strangeness of this behavior,
they started straight for Spain, leaving their shipmates behind them. And so, in the sixteenth month
after leaving Thedori, they arrived safe and sound
on the 6th of September, at the port near Hispalis
(Seville). Worthier, indeed, are our sailors of eternal
fame than the Argonauts who sailed with Jason to
Colchis. And much more worthy was their ship of
being placed among the stars than that old Argo;
for that only sailed from Greece through Pontus,
but ours from Hispalis to the South; and after that,
through the whole West and the Southern hemisphere, penetrating into the East, and again returned
to the West."
His subscription is interesting:
"I commend myself most humbly to your reverence. Given at Vallisoleti, on the 23d of October,
1522.
"Your most reverend and illustrious lordship's
"Most humble and constant servant,
" MAXIMILIANUS TRANSYLYANUS."




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When the spice ship began to fill with water, the
officers sent for native divers. But these, although
very skillful, could not find the place or the cause
of the leak.
Let us change our view to a different scene, across
the wide tropical world.




CHAPTER XXII.


MESQUITA IN PRISON.
WHTILE the little ship Victoria, which had sought
for Mesquita in vain, was sailing around the world,
and was returning laden with spice, Mesquita himself remained shut out from the sun by the shadows
of prison walls.  His life became more and more
silent and neglected.
We know not by what authority he was held in
a dungeon for advising the supposed crimes of his
cousin Magellan. It could not have been that of
Juana, who was still watching over the tomb from
which she expected her husband to rise, nor by good
Cardinal Ximenes, and possibly not by Charles V
himself, but perhaps by one of his ministers.  It
may have been by the lirection of Charles, for his
imprisonment implies doubt; otherwise with such
an array of testimony against him, we might expect
he would have been executed.
Two years had passed over beautiful Seville, and
the India House there must have began to doubt the
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turned. These ships might have been cast away in
the wintry seas that Gormez and his crew described,
or the flag of Spain that the daring Portuguese had
set toward the Spice Islands of the East by the way
of the South might be seen again some day, rising
over the (Guadalquivir.
Mesquita believed in his cousin Magellan; not
only in him as a true man, but as one who had a
divine calling to fulfill; as one whom destiny had
allotted to lead the decisive events of mankind. He
still felt that he would prove another Columbus or
Vasco (da Galla.
The two priests whom Magellan had marooned
had honestly thought Magellan mad. But Mesquita
had his own confessor, and we can easily fancy how
the prisoner must have opened his heart to him.
"Padre, I am misunderstood," we can hear him
say. "Time tells the truth about all men. Time
vindicates all.
"Padre, some messenger from Magellan will come
back again. Time weighs all events, and life is self
revealing.  The heralds will blow their trumpets
then, and the bells will ring.
"Padre, they do well to prolong my life. Some
day my prison doors will open wide, and I shall ride
through the streets of Seville, and those who doubt
me now will hail me as a heart that was always true
to a Knight whose heart will be found true to the
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The lamp of his faith burned clear and odorous oil.
He had a quiet conscience. But how must the conspirators have felt during these uncertain months?
The ships did not return. That seemed to favor one
view of the madness of Magellan, and yet it did not
leave them at ease. There were some who reasoned:
If Magellan were indeed mad on his own ship, why
might not one or more of the other ships have returned? If the other ships had been loyal to the
lantern of Magellan, and had kept together, might
the fleet not return again?  Should it return what
a stigma would be cast on the characters of the
cowardly mutineers! In such a case Mesquita
would become a hero, and the latter would have to
flee from their own names.
Charles V was in his promise of glory now. In
1519, as we have before stated, he had been elected
Emperor of Germany; and in 1520 he had been
crowned at Aix la Chapelle, amid great rejoicings,
and the Pope had bestowed upon him the title of
Cesar or Emperor of the Roman world. He was
called " Casar " in the chronicles of the times.
Poor Juana took no interest in any of these pomps
of her son, as they shook the world. Her ears were
deaf to them, her heart wlas dead to them all. The
mother of " Casar"? was almost the only person in
Spain who hailed not the glory of Cesar.
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new Caesar. HIe had accepted the story brought by
the returned ship; but Magellan the madman might
come back again. Madmen had returned before.
The period was a wonderful one. Printing, the
art of which had been but recently developed after
the discovery of Gutenberg, was revealing its great
possibilities. These were the times of Francis in
France, and of Henry VIII in England. The Reformation was overturning Germany. The whole
world seemed to be changing.
If the ships of Magellan were to find a new way
to the East, and were to sail around the world, what
surprising events might follow!
So, night after night, Mesquita could but hope
and ask:
lWhere is the lantern of Magfellan now?"
Seville was full of maritime prosperity.  The
tuneful bells in her many churches had frequent
occasions to ring out for national festivals.  The
sailors loved these services, and especially those that
celebrated the triumpls of the Virgin whose dominion had become, as was supposed, the sea, and
who was hailed as the " Star of the Deep."
The happy crowds on their way to the rejoicing
churches must have passed the prison walls where
Mesquita was detained. Life indeed must have been
mysterious to him. The world in whichl he deserved
so much honor and happiness was shut out from
him-even the sun and stars.




CHAPTER XXIII.


STRANGE STORIES.-TIIE WISE OLD WOMOEN. —TIE
WALKING LEAVES.-THIE IIIJANTED SANIDALWOOD
TREES.-THE EMPEROR OF CIIINA.-TIIE LITTLE
BOY AND THE GIANT BIRD.
PIGAFETTA was no Munchausen, but he had a
love of marvelous stories, and there never was a
voyage that offered to a European a greater number of curious events and superstitions. Some of the
incidents that excited our Chevalier's wonder were
natural events which have been since explained.
The superstitious legends of the people were, however, for the most part but the growth of folklore
through the imagination.
One of these accounts relates to the wise old
women who prepared the sacrifices of the wild boar
as offerings to the sun. It shows how small may be
the real meaning of pompous and pretentious ceremonies. The rites took place in the Philippines.
Says Pigafetta in his narrative prepared for the
Grand Master of the Knight of Rhodes:
" Since I lhave spoken of the idols, it may please
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ceremony with which, in this island, they bless the
pig. They begin by sounding some great drums
(tamburi); they then bring three large dishes; two
are filled with cakes of rice and cooked millet rolled
up in leaves, with roast fish; in the third are Cambay
cloths and two strips of palm cloth.  A cloth of
Cambay is spread out on the ground; then two old
women come, each of whom has in her hand a reed
trumpet.  They step upon the cloth and make an
obeisance to the sun; they then clothe themselves
with the above-mentioned cloths. The first of these
puts on her head a handkerchief which she ties on
her forehead so as to nmake two horns, and taking
another handkerchief in her hand, dances and sounds
her trumpet and invokes the sun.
" The second old woman takes one of the strips
of palm cloth and dances, and also sounds her
trumpet; thus they dance and sound their trumpets
for a short space of time, saying several things to
the sun. The first old woman then (drops the handkerchief she has in her hand and takes the other
strip of cloth, and both together sounding their
trumpets, dance for a long time round the pig which
is bound on the ground. The first one always speaks
in a low tone to the sun, and the second answers
her. So the sun and the two old women had a luminous partnership.
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address to the sun, brings the cup four or five times
near the mouth as though going to drink, and meanwhile sprinkles the wine on the heart of the pig.
She then gives up the cup, and receives a lance
which she brandishes, while still dancing and reciting, and four or five times directs the lance at the
pig's heart; at last, with a sudden and well-aimled
blow, she pierces it through and through. She withdraws the lance from the wound, which is then
closed and dressed with herbs.
" During the ceremony a torch is always burning,
and the old woman who pierced the pig takes and
puts it out with her mouth; the other old woman
dips the end of her trumpet in the pig's blood, and
with it marks with blood the forehead of her husband and of her companion, and then of the rest of
the people. But they did not come and do this
to us.
" That ldone the old women took off their robes
and ate what was in the two dishes, inviting only
women to join them. After that they get the hair
off the pig with fire. Only old women are able to
consecrate the boar, and this animal is never eaten
unless it is killed in this manner."
Pigafetta saw wonderful things in Borneo, among
them a wild boar whose head was two and a half
spans long, and oysters as large as turtles. He says
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But the thing there which probably must have
most greatly excited his curiosity was the zalkintg
lac ecs. There were certain trees on the islands that
lhad very animated leaves. When one of these
leaves fell from the tree, it did not lie where it fell,
to rot or to be shuffled by the winds, but it lifted
itself up and walked away.
Here was a sight indeed to make the young Italian fly to his memoranda book, which he did.
Other travelers later saw the same curious thing,
but they examined the miracle more closely than the
credulous Chevalier.  They found that the leaves
were moved by an insect that lived inside of them,
like the Mexican bean, which is used as a toy, and
will jump about a table.
The islands of the Indian Ocean abound in sandalwood. Of the sandal trees Pigafetta heard other
curious legends. One of them tells us that when the
people of the Timor went out to cut sandalwood, the
devil appeared to them, and demanded them to bargain with him for the wood. This they did, for those
who cut the wood are otherwise likely to fall sick;
a poisonous miasma is exhaled from the wounded
wood.
Pigafetta heard also marvelous tales of the Emperor of China, who seemed to live amid human
walls. There may be some truths in these incidents;
if so, what a remarkable condition must have been
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He says:
"The kingdom of Cocchi lies next; its sovereign
is named Raja Seri Bummipala. After that follows
Great China, the king of which is the greatest sovereign of the world, and is called Santoa Raja. He
has seventy crowned kings under his dependence;
and some of these kings have ten or fifteen lesser
kings dependent on them. The port of this kingdom
is named Guantan, an  amnong the many cities of
this Empire, two are the most important, namely,
Nankin and Comlaha, where the King usually resides.
" He has four of his principal ministers close to
his palace, at the four sides looking to the four cardinal winds; that is, one to the west, one to the
east, to the south, and to the north. Each of these
gives audience to those that come from his quarter.
All the kings and lords of India major and superior
obey this Kin,, and in token of their vassalage, each
is obliged to have in the middle of the principal
palace of his city the marble figure of a certain animal named Chinga, an animal more valuable than
the lion; the figure of this animal is also engraved
on the King's seal, and all who wish to enter his port
must carry the same emblem in wax or ivory.
"If any lord is disobedient to him, he is flayed,
and his skin, dried in the sun, salted, and stuffed, is
placed in an eminent part of the public place, with
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attitude of doing zongu; that is obeisance to the
King.
" Ie is never visible to anybody; and if he wishes
to see his people he is carried about the palace on
a peacock most skillfully manufactured and very
richly adorned, with six ladies dressed exactly like
himself, so that he can not be distinguished from
them. Ile afterward passes into a richly adorned
figure of a serpent called Naga, which has a large
glass in the breast, through which he and the ladies
are seen, but it is not possible to distinguish which
is the King. Ie marries his sisters in order that his
blood should not mix with that of others.
" His palace has seven walls around it, and in each
circle there are daily ten thousand men on guard,
who are changed every twelve hours at the sound
of a bell. Each wall has its gate, with a guard at
each gate. At the first stands a man with a great
scourge in his hand, named Satuloran with satubagan; at the second, a dog called Satuhain; at the
rhird, a man with an iron mace, called Satuhoran
with pocumbecin; at the fourth, a man with a bow
in his hand, called Saturhoran with anatpanan; at
the fifth, a man with a lance, called Satuhoran with
tumach; at the sixth, a lion, called Saturhorilnau;
at the seventh, two white elephants, called Gagiapute.
"The palace contains seventy-nine halls, in which
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there are always torches burning there. It is not possible to go round the palace in less than a day. In
the upper part of it are four halls where the ministers go to speak to the King; one is ornamented
with metal, both the pavement and the walls; anotler is all of silver, another all of gold, and the
other is set with pearls and precious stones. The
gold and other valuable things which are brought as
tribute to the King are placed in these rooms; and
when they are there deposited, they say, ' Let this be
for the honor and glory of our Santoa Raja.' All
these things and many others relating to this King,
were narrated to us by a Moor, who said that he had
seen them."
A palace of seven walls, seventy-nine halls,
and ten thousand men on guard! A hall of silver,
another of gold, and one of precious stones! Ittook
a day to encompass it. We may well wonder how
much of truth there was in this brief Oriental story!
When the adventurers came to Java they heard
some tales that were marvelous, and that quite
equaled those which Queen Scheherezade of the
Arabian Nights told of Sinbad the Sailor.
One of these fabulous stories, told them  by a
pilot, had an Oriental charm and coloring. It was
of a giant bird, like the roc of the Arabian Nights.
According to this fanciful legend which we give
with some freedom, there was a land called Java
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an enormous tree, seemingly as big as a mountainone of the greatest trees in all the world. In this
tree, which might have shaded a hill, lived a colony
of birds, with wings like clouds, so broad and powerful that they could lift an elephant or a buffalo into
the air and bear him away to the mountainous tree.
The fruit of this tree was larger than the largest
melons.
There were Moors on the ship where this story of
the great tree and the great bird was told. One of
them said:
"I have sccn the great bird with my own
eyes!"
Another Moor said:
"One of the birds was once captured, and sent
as a present to the King of Siam!"
An account of the capture of such a bird would
have been very interesting!
There were great whirlpools around the mountainous tree. So that no ship could approach within
three or four leagues of it.
But once, according to the legend, some adventurous sailors sailed near the great tree. They had
a little boy on board their boat, and he must have
surveyed the giant of the forest with wonder.
They sailed too near, for presently their boat
began to go round and round, and they found themselves in the power of the whirlpool.
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against a rock, and all on board perished, except the
little boy, who was supple.
This child caught a plank and held on to it. He
was carried hither and thither among the eddies and
breakers, but he found himself drawing nearer and
nearer the great tree. At last he was cast on shore
at the foot of the tree.
"Here must be my home," said he, for he thought
he never could get away again. No boat could come
to him, and he could not fly.
The tree had great masses of bark, so that he
could climb up into it. He mounted up to its high
limbs. He could not starve, for the fruit of such a
tree must have been sufficient to have supplied a
colony.
So cast away on the tree, he here expected to live
and to die.
Toward sunset great wings like clouds darkened
the shining air. The birds were coming home tonight in the tree. Their nests were there as big as
houses.
They settled down, causing a great wind, and put
their great heads under their wings and went to
sleep.
The boy was bright, and a plan of getting away
from the tree came to him. He reasoned that if he
could not fly the bird could, and what would be the
weight of a little boy to a bird who could carry
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So he marked the largest and most powerful bird
with his eye, and crept up to it and got under his
wing, and into his great feathers.
The bird was asleep and did not wake!
MIorning, caile, and with the first red dawn, as
we may fancy, the bird threw up his head and
began to stir. Ile lifted himself up and shook
himlself, but lie (lid not shake off the boy, who
was safely nestled among the little forest of its
feathers.
The sun was brightening the islands, and the
bird mounted up and flew away in search of food,
carrying the little boy under his wing.
After traversing the sunrise air for a long time,
the bird flew over a land of buffaloes.
lie here descended to capture a buffalo, to bear
himn away to the mountainous tree for food. As he
alilghted on tle back of the buffalo with a wild
screamn of delight, the little boy dropped out from
under his wing, and so found his way to his own
isl and.
It was the little boy that told this large story,
quite like Sinbad's.
There were found mysterious fruits floating on
the sea, whlich were supposed to have fallen from
the tree.
" I lhave seen the bird myself," said a third Moorish pilot, and with the testimony of the little boy,
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ought to be as trustworthy as the one of Sinbad the
Sailor.
The voyage back to the Cape of Good Hope and
thence to the Cape Verde Islands was one for stranlge
reflections. Del Cano now was the leader of the
returning mariners. Thle expedition had gone out
from the port of Seville amid shouting quays and
towers, with some two hundred and seventy men.
Only one ship was returning and she was bringing
home hardly as many men as composed her own
crew.
We can imagine Del Cano on deck, with the lantern of Magellan still swinging above him, talking
with his officers on a tropical night off the African
coast.
"Magellan has found an unknown grave," we
may hear him say.
But humanity will mourn for him, and honor
hin, and tlhe grave matters not," answers a pad(re.
"We shall never see Mesquita again," continues
Del Cano.
" We can not be sure," replies the padre. "We
can know nothin, that we do not see."
"We surely shall never meet Carthagena again.
I can see in my memory those last biscuits and
bottles of wine. HIe needs none of them now."
"He may have them all," answers the padre.
"We are yet rich in spices. We shall surprise
the world when we drop anchor at Seville."




172         THE STORY OF MAGELLAN.
"And Seville may have surprises for us," says
the hopeful padre.
They drifted on under favoring airs. The soul of
Del Cano was lost to common events in the wonderful revelations of the sea. Should he reach Seville,
he would be the living hero of the most marvelous
voyage ever made by any mariner.
Such were the scenes and tales that crowded
upon the mind of Pigafetta, who wished "to see
the wonders of the world." The story of the Emperor of China's palace is associated with objects
so marvelous that the meaning of their names is
lost to-day.




CHAPTER XXIV.


THE LOST DAY.
WHEN they reached the Cape Verde Islands, the
sailors found that a very strange thing had happened.
They had lost a day-or, the islanders had
gained a day!
They met the ships from Seville there, and doubtless disputed with the traders in regard to what
day of the week it was.
"This is the 6th of September," they said; "a day
that we shall ever have occasion to celebrate."
" It is the 7th of September," said their joyous
friends.
The sailors consulted with each other.  All
agreed that it was the 6th of September. Nowhere
had they failed to make a daily memorandum. The
people of Seville must have lost a day.
The solar year consists of three hundred and
sixty-five days and six hours, and if one sails West
three years one will gain a day, and if one sails East,
one will lose a day.
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If the reader will note the following dates of this
wonderful voyage, he will solve the mystery of the
" lost day: "
CHRONOLOGY OF TIlE FIRST VOYAGE ROUND TIlE WORLD.
Magellan arrives at Seville...................October 20, 1518.
Magellan's fleet sails from Seville, Monday *.. August 10, 1519.
Magellan sails from San Lucar de Barrameda,
Tuesday.................................September 20, 1519.
Magellan arrives at Teneriffe................September 26, 1519.
Magellan sails from Teneriffe, Modncay.......October 3, 1519.
Magellan arrives at Rio Janeiro..............December 13, 1519.
Magellan sails from Rio............. December 26, 1519.
Magellan sails from Rio de la Plata..........February 2. 1520.
Magellan arrives at Port St. Juliau...........March 31, 1520.
Eclipse  of sun...............................April 17, 1520.
Loss of Santiago.
Magellan sails from Port St. Julian...........August 24, 1520.
Magellan sails from river of Santa Cruz...... October 18, 1520.
Magellan makes Cape of the Virgins, entrance
of straits............................ October 21. 1520.
Desertion of San Antonio................... November, 1520.
Magellan issues from straits into the Pacific,
Wednesday...................... November 28, 1520.
Magellan fetches San Pablo Island...........January 24, 1521.
Magellan fetches Tiburones Island...........February 4, 1521.
Magellan reaches the Ladrone Islands, Wednesday......................................M arch  6, 1521.
Magellan reaches Samar Island of the Philippines, Saturday........................ March 16, 1521.
Magellan reaches Ma7zava Island, Thursday..March 28, 1521.
Magellan arrives at Zebu Islad..............April 7, 1521.
Death of Magellan at Matan, Saturday........April 27, 1521.


* The 10th of August was Wednes1day, and Monday was the 8th of
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Arrival of San Antonio at Seville........... May 6, 1521.
Arrival of Victoria and Trinity at Tidore, Friday...................................... Novem ber  8, 1521.
Victoria sails from Tidore.............D......December 21, 1521.
Victoria discovers Amsterdam Island, Tuesday. March 18, 1522.
Victoria doubles the Cape of Good Hope...... May 18, 1522.
Victoria arrives at San Lucar, Wednesday *...September 6, 1522.
They sought provisions of the Portuguese colony
at Cape Verde.
The Portuguese persecution of the expedition,
which Magellan had made for Spain, did not cease
even here.    The Victoria sent out boats for rice.
Olne of the sailors could not restrain his joy, and told
the Portuguese who he was and whence he came.
The jealousy    of the Portuguese     was aroused
again.
"The expedition carries glory to      Spain," said
they.    Did not the King tear the arms from       Magellan's door?"
One of the boats sent out for rice did not return.
The Victoria knew     why they were detained, and
sailed away while she could, to bear the glorious
news of the discovery to Seville.


* According to ship's time.




CHAPTER XXV.


IN THE CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF VICTORY.PIGAFETTA.
THE Victoria cast anchor in the Port of Seville on September 8, 1522. Joy filled the city on
that day, and heralds went forth to proclaim the
news.
What news it was!
That Magellan had found a new way to the
Pacific.
That he had discovered the Pacific to be a mighty
ocean.
That he had sailed over it and found a new ocean
world.
That he was dead.
That he had made immortal discoveries, and that
one of his ships had sailed around the world.
The hero of the day was Del Cano, the commander of the Victoria.
There was a most beautiful church in Seville,
called Our Lady of Victory. To that the returning
mariners were summoned to give thanks for their
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IN THE CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF VICTORY. 177


discovery on the day after their arrival, September
9, 1522.
Bells rang out on the shining air. The remnant
of the happy crews entered the church amid the
joyous music to hear the songs of thanksgiving for
victory:
"We praise thee, 0 God I
We believe thee to be
The Father everlasting!"
They had returned in the Victoria, and the service had to them a special significance in the church
of that name.
Mesquita must have heard the acclaiming city.
To the prisoner who had waited in hope, the
trumpets of the heralds must have been sweet after
his release!  Juana, the demented Queen, was yet
watching by the tomb in view of her window, hoping
at each dawn of the morning that she would find
that the dust had awakened to life again. Charles
was nmapping Europe; his fire of ambition was
glowing, and the news of the new fields of the
ocean that these discoveries had brought to him
filled him with pride and exultation.
He resolved on giving Del Cano and his mariners
a splendid reception, after the manner that Isabella
had received Columbus.
Del Cano was now the living representative of
Magellan. In publicly receiving him with heralds,
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whose name was now immortal. So Charles spread
his tables of silver and gold to those who had lived
on the open sea on scraps of leather, and magnanimously welcomed as knights of the sea those who
had followed the sun around the world.
Spain opened the prison doors of Mesquita.
Iow must Del Cano have welcomed Mesquita as
he came forth from his prison, vindicated on these
festal days!
Mesquita was a hero now, and a hero among
heroes, for he had been a martyr to the cause. The
people's hearts overflowed toward him.
So the islands of the new ocean world came to
be the possessions of Spain, and from Philip, who
succeeded Charles, were called the Philippines.
They were to be governed, robbed, taxed, and, in
part, reduced to slavery for the enrichment of Spain
for nearly four hundred years. Then Spain was to
vanish from their history in the smoke of Admiral
Dewey's guns, and over themi was to float the flag
of the republic of the West.
It is a strange allotment of events that these
islands should introduce tle republic of the West
into the Asiatic world. A half century ago the subject of Europe in Asia excited the attention of mankind, but no one ever dreamed that a like topic of
America in Asia would ever become one of the
political problems of the world.
The future of these islands must be one of civili







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IN THE CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF VICTORY. 179


zation, education, and development, and we may
hope that these will be brought about under the
divine law of American institutions, that " all governments derive their just powers from the consent
of the governed." Justice alone is the true sword
of power, perpetuity, and peace. To lead the natives
of these islands to desire to receive all that is best
in civilized life, is one of the great missions of the
republic of the West; and that republic, governed by
the conscience of the people, will be true to the
cause of human rights.
Pigafetta? We must let him tell the story of his
life on his return. " Leaving Seville I repaired to
Valladolid, where I presented his sacred Majesty,
Don Carlos, neither gold nor silver, but other things
far more precious in the eyes of so great a sovereign.
For I brought to him, among other things, a book
written in my own hand, givingl an account of all
the things which had happened day by day on the
voyage.
"Then I went to Portugal, where I related to
King John the things that I had seen.
"Returning by the way of Spain, I came to
France, where I presented treasures that I had
brought home to the regent mother of the most
Christian King Don Francis.
"Then I turned my face toward Italy, where I
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de Villiers 1'Isle Adams, the Grand Master of
Rhodes."
The scene of the presentation of the parchment
story of Magellan to Charles V is most interesting.
That manuscript was like the return of Magellan
himself; it told what the hero of the sea had been
and what he had done.   It was in itself a work
of genius, and the world has never ceased to
read it in the spirit of sympathy in which it was
written.
We may fancy the scene: the youn    g King surrounded by his court, in his happiest days; the
Italian Knight amid the splendors of the audience
room, placing in the hands of the new C-esar the roll
of the narrative of the voyage around the world!
Such a story no pen had ever traced before. That
must have been one of the proudest moments in the
life of Charles as he took from the Knight the map
of the round world.
To the last Pigafetta was true to the Admiral;
and one of the best things that can be said of any
man is, " He is true hearted."
A wooden statue of Del Cano was found at Cavite
on the surrender of that port to Commodore Dewey.
It was sent to WTashington. It should be replaced
by some worthy work of art.
The island of Guam, of the Ladrones, which broke
the long voyage of Magellan over the Pacific, and
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captured by Captain Glass, of the United States
cruiser Charleston, July 21, 1898.       It is a connecting
link between the West and the Orient.           A memorial
of Magellan, Del Cano, and Pigafetta might be suitably placed there.
The   author of the       Songs   of the    Sierras has
described the spirit of Columbus in a poem             which
has been     highly   commended.       The   interpretation
applies as well to Magellan.        We quote two verses:
genius must overcome obstacles, and all obstacles, to
be made divine.
THE PORT.
Behind him lay the gray Azores,
Behind, the gates of Hercules.
Before him not the ghosts of shores,
Before him only shoreless seas.
The good mate said: "Now must we pray,
For, lo! the very stars are gone.
Brave Admiral, speak-what shall I say?"
"Why say-Sail on, sail on, sail on!"
They sailed, they sailed. Then spoke the mate:
" This mad sea shows her teeth to-night;
She curls her lip and lies in wait
With lifted teeth as if to bite.
Brave Admiral, say but one good word,
What shall we do when hope is gone?"
The words lealped as a leaping sword"Sail on, sail on, sail on and on! "


13




SUPPLEMENTAL.


THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.-LAGASPI.-TIHE STRUGGLE OF
THE NATIVES WITI SPAIN.-STORY OF TIlE PATRIOT
RIZAL.-AGUINALDO.
THE Philippine Islands, which promise to become
a republic of the seas, and the first republic in
Asiatic waters, were for generations held by Spain
These one thousand and more sea gardens, some
eleven thousand miles from New York, number
about as few islands of importance as there are
American States. The government of the more
populous islands has been so restrictive that, before
the boom of Dewey's guns in the China Sea, little
was known about them to the world.
The archipelago consists of some six hundred
islands that might find marking on an ordinary map
of the world.
Twenty-five of these have gained a commercial
standing, from which are collected products for foreign trade. The chief of these is Luzon, and the principal ports of the larger islands are Iloilo, on the
island of Panay; Zebu and Zamboango.
Luzon and the northern islands are inhabited by
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183


a partly civilized race, called the Tagals, who are
supposed to be descended from immigrants from
the Malay peninsula.  They have had the reputation of a mild-mannered people, as they have long
received, directly or indirectly, European influences.
There are two thousand one hundred schools in
Luzon and some six millions of the natives of the
islands are claimed as Catholics.
A sultanate was formed on the Sulu archipelago
nearly eight hundred years ago, and the Mohammedan populations are called Moros or Moors. The
Visayas people are a lower race. Colonies of Chinese
are to be found in many of the larger islands, and
these constitute the centers of thrift and industry.
The official language of the islands is Spanish, but
the natives speak in twenty or more dialects. The
islands are supposed to contain about ten million people, but there are no correct censuses by
which to compute the number. Even the islands
themselves seem not to have been correctly counted.
The history of the islands since their discovery
has been one of the most silent in the world. They
have been governed by Spain in such a manner as to
enrich the Crown of Spain. When the Pope apportioned the newly discovered world among the Kings
of the Church, the Western Hemisphere was given
to Spain, and by an error of division Spain received
the Moluccas or Spice Islands.  Magellan declared
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many years Spain sent an expedition from one of her
colonies to Zebu to begin the occupation of the
Spicery. The leader of this expedition, Miguel de
Lagaspi, caused his men to marry native women,
hoping thereby more easily to subdue a wild and untrained race.
In 1571 this colonizer brought Manila under his
influence, and induced the native King to accept the
suzerainty of the Spanish King. He proclaimed
Manila the seat of Government, and made it an
episcopal city.
Legaspi came to learn a very strange thing. It
was that the Chinese had made themselves masters
of navigation by vmonsoons. They came down from
their coasts to Manila Bay on northwest monsoons,
and when the monsoons changed they were carried
back again. This power was akin to steam. Their
boats were junks, but they filled the marts of Manila
with silks and other Oriental luxuries.
Legaspi encouraged this trade.  He was the
founder of trade in the ports of the China Sea. Ite
caused a market place to be built for the Chinese
traders in Manila, in the form of a circus, and afterward opened a quarter for them within the walls.
The Chinese still hold a large part of the retail trade
of the port. Before the late Spanish war, they numbered about sixty thousand, and one hundred thousand in the port and provinces.
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people; their efforts were partly successful, but
sometimes ended in tragedies.
The trade between Spain and the Philippines was
for a long time carried on by the way of Mexico.
The intercourse between the Crown and her dependencies here was infrequent.  The MohaInmmedans
waged frequent wars against the Catholic missionaries, whom they sought to exterminate.
The friars became the real rulers of the civilized
parts of the islands. The will of the Spanish priest
was absolute. He was independent of State authority. The rule of the Church was so severe that it
brought religion into disfavor, and when the power
of Aguinaldo arose, that chief insisted upon the expulsion of certain monastic orders, as detrimental to
liberty, and demanded the restoration of the estates
of the Church to the people.
Such is, in brief, the simple history of the islands
discovered by Magellan before the archipelago was
ceded by the treaty of Paris to the United States.
MANILA.
Beautiful Manila, shining over the China Sea-so
seductive to the white man when seen from a distance, so withering to all his energies when the same
white man becomes a resident there!
A two days' voyage from Hong Kong brings
the traveler to Luzon to the river Pasig, where
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like a haze of green vegetation, break the view.
Palms lift their green cool shadows in the burning
air.
Manila is a walled city. The entrance is by drawbridges, which are raised at night.
The nediaeval atmosphere does not disappear
when one finds one's self within the walls. Exhaustion and decay are every^iP^^    where. The large open bay
J.W  lies in the splendors of the
^::;l^ -     sunlight when the day is
calm, and the visitor would
never dream of its turbulent condition when it is
X  X  lashed by the typhoon.
Across the bay stands,:1 '\;1    Cavite, the naval station,
Admiral Dewey.  the scene of Dewey's victory
over the Spanish fleet.
The city has some two hundred and seventy thousand inhabitants. The merchants, as we have said,
are largely Chinese, and their quarters are picturesque with gay bazaars.
In the shadow  land of trees and open dry
marshes outside of the city are beautiful estates, and
along the roadsides people go waving their fans
slowly and listlessly. Here are the parks, the bull
ring, and the lovely botanical gardens.
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their backs to the sun, though little work can be
done here in the noonday heat.
Some years ago a terrible cold came to Manila.
It was on a late December night, near morning. The
thermometer went down to 74~. Think of that, and
of the poor coolies, and of the negritos, or the little
black dwarfs, and of those who lived in the thousands of huts of bamboo or reeds! True, 74~ would
indicate a hot day in our American June or July,
but in Manila it was a cold morning, and the people
came shivering into the streets, to tell each other
of their sufferings.
The best description of Manila before the war
that we have seen was written by Crozet, and is contained in an English translated book entitled
Crozet's Voyage to Tasmania, New Zealand, the
Ladrone Islands, and the Philippines. From this
beautifully illustrated work we present a view of the
city and the surrounding island as it appeared seven
years or more ago:
"Tlhe city of Manila is one of the most beautiful
that Europeans have built in the East In(lies; its
houses are all of stone, with tile roofs and they are
big, comfortable and well ventilated. The streets
of Manila are broad and perfectly straight; there
are five principal streets, which divide the city
lengthwise, and about ten which divide it broadways.  The form of the city is that of an oblong,
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the side of the river by a badly planned citadel,
which is about to be pulled down and rebuilt. The
city walls are flanked by a bastion at every one of
the four angles. There are at Manila eight principal
churches, with an open place in front of every one;
they are all beautiful, large and very richly decorated.  The Cathedral is a building which would
grace any of our European cities, and has just been
rebuilt by an Italian Theatin,* who is an able architect. The two rows of columns which support the
vaults of the nave and of the aisles are of magnificent marble; so also are the columns of the portal,
the altars, the steps, and the pavement. These marbles are obtained from local quarries, are of great
variety, and are of the greatest beauty. The space in
front of the Cathedral is very large, and is the finest
in the city.
" On one side the palace of the Governor is
flanked by the Cathedral, on the other by the Town
Hall.  The Town Hall is very beautiful.    At the
extremity of the place in front of the Cathedral a
large barracks is being constructed, which is to be
capable of lodging eight thousand troops.
"Private houses, as well as public buildings, are
all one story high.   Spaniards never live on the
ground floor, on account of the dampness, but they
occupy the first floor instead. The heat of the cli* A regular order of clergy established at Ilome in 1524, but which
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mate has induced them to build very large apartments, with verandas running right round the outside, so as to keep out of the sun; the windows form
part of the verandas, and the daylight only enters
the rooms by means of the doors which open out on
to these verandas.  The ground floor serves as a
storehouse, and to prevent the rising of moisture
from the soil its surface is raised a foot, by means
of a bed of charcoal; then sand or gravel is placed
on top of this bed, which is finally paved with stone
or brick laid with mortar.
" As the country is very subject to earthquakes,
the houses, although built of stone, are strengthened
with large posts of wood or iron fixed perpendicularly in the ground, rising to the top of the wall-plates,
and built within the walls, so that they can not be
seen, and then crossed on every floor by master girders, strongly bound together and bolted by wooden
keys, which so consolidate the whole building.
" Manila is built on the mouth of a beautiful
river, which flows from a lake, called by the Spaniards Lagonlnc-dc-bay, and which is situated five
leagues inland. Forty streams flow into this lake,
which is twenty leagues in circumference, and
around which there are as many villages as streams.
The Manila River is the only one which flows out
of the lake. It is covered with boats, bringing to
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" The suburbs are bigger and more thickly populated than the city itself; they are separated from it
by a river, across which a beautiful bridge has been
thrown. The Minondo suburb is more especially inhabited by half-breeds, Chinese, and Indians, who
are for the most part goldsmiths and silversmiths,
and all of them work people.
" The Saint Croix suburb is inhabited by Spanish
merchants, by foreigners of all nations, and by Chinese half-breeds. This quarter is the most agreeable
one in the country, because the houses, which are
quite as fine as those of the city, are built on the
river bank, and thereby they enjoy all the conveniences and pleasantness due to such a position.
"IIn spite of such advantages, the city is badly
situated, being placed between two intercommunicating volcanoes, and of which the interiors, being
always active, are evidently preparing its ruin. The
two volcanoes are those of the Lagonne-ed-Taal and
of Monte Albay. When one burns, the other smokes.
I shall speak later on of the former of these volcanoes, whiclh, to me at least, appeared a most singular one.
"Until the shocks of the volcanoes shall decide
its fate, Manila remains the capital of the Spanish
establishments in the Philippines. Here reside the
Governor, who is called the Captain General and
President of the Royal Audience.  Don Simon de
Auda filled this office when I arrived at Manila.




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This Governor had previously been a member of the
Royal Audience, and when the English, at the end
of the last war, took Manila, he escaped from the
city before the surrender, placed himself at the head
of the Indians of the province of Pampague, and,
without regard to the capitulation of the city, he is
said to have succeeded in confining the English
within their conquest, starving equally the conquerors and the conquered. Noticing that the Chinese established outside the city walls were furnishing provisions to English and Spaniards alike, he
butchered them, putting more than ten thousand to
the sword. It seemed to me, however, that the Spaniards in general considered the efforts of this councillor to be more harmful than advantageous to the
welfare of the Spanish colony. The English, harassed by the Indians under Don Simon de Auda, had
on their part armed and raised other provinces of
Luzon, so as to oppose Indian to Indian, and this
sort of civil war did more harm to the colony than
even the capture of Manila by the English.
" However this may be, Don Simon de Auda returned to Spain after the peace, was rewarded for
his zeal by being made Privy Councillor of Castile,
and was sent back to Manila as Governor General of
the Philippines. Since his arrival in his province
he has started a number of important projects, but
difficult to be carried out at one and the same time.
He has started considerable fortifications in vari



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ous parts of the city, very large barracks, dykes at
the mouth of the river, a powder-mill, smelting furnaces and forges to work the iron mines, and a number of other useful works, which might have succeeded better had they been started in due succession.
" The Philippine Archipelago contains fourteen
principal islands, the Government of which is
divided into twenty-seven provinces, which are governed by alcaldes under the orders of the Governor
Captain General. All these islands are thickly populated, being about three million. These islands extend from the tenth to the twenty-third degree north
latitude, and vary in breadth from about forty
leagues at the north end of Luzon up to two hundred leagues from the south of the southeast point
of Mindanao to the southwest point of Paragoa.
" They are all fertile and rich in natural products.
But although the Spaniards have been established
here for more than two hundred years, they have
not yet succeeded in making themselves masters of
the islands.  They have no foothold on Paragoa,
which is almost eighty leagues long, nor on the
adjacent small islands; they only possess a few acres
on the big island of Mindanao, which is two hundred leagues in circumference, nor are they yet fully
acquainted with the interior of the island of Luzon,
where they have their chief settlement, namely, the
city of Manila. Luzon is the largest of these islands,




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193


being a hundred and forty leagues long from Cape
Bojador to Bulusan Point, which is the most northerly point, and about forty leagues broad. In the
northern part of Luzon, near the province of Ilocos,
there are some aborigines with whom the Spaniards
have never been able to establish communication.
It is believed that these people are the descendants
of Chinese, who, having been shipwrecked on these
shores, have established themselves in the mountains of this part of the island. It is said that some
Indians know the routes by which access is gained
to this people, and that they have been well received
by them; but it is in the interest of these Indians
'to withhold the knowledge from the Spaniards, on
account of their great trade profits with these people,
who lack many things and have only provisions and
gold."
THE STORY OF THE PATRIOT RIZAL.
DR. JOSEf RIZAL, a virtuous Catholic reformer,
was the Samuel Adams of the awakening of moral
feeling against the tyranny of Spain. He sought to
reform the Government and to correct corruption in
the Church.
He belonged to the province of Cavite. He was
a small man, of a clear, sensitive conscience, and
great intellectual penetration and force. It became
the one purpose of his life to free his countrymen.
" He organized the Revolution," says a monument to
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revolution in a like manner as the " last of the Puritans " in New England, by the collecting of facts for
correspondence with patriots at Manila and Hong
Kong.
In his school life he beheld the universal corruption going on around him. His heart was moved
to pity the people.
lie wrote a letter in which he urged reform by
the expulsion of corrupt officers of the Government
and of certain immoral priests. This awakened the
Government and made him secret enemies. He was
accused by the Government of treason and by the
decadent priests of the Church of blasphemy.  He
held to his convictions against all opposition, knowing that righlt was right and truth was truth.
He sought to unite the worthy representatives of
the State and Church in an effort to bring about a
change which should honor morals and give justice
to the people. Among men of conscience his influence secretly grew. He hoped to gain such force
as to make an appeal to the court at Madrid.
Ite organized a moral revolution.
Conscience is power, but its progress is slow.
In 1890 D)r. Rizal published a pamphlet that
stirred the island world. lte pictured the sufferings
of the natives under the Spanish rule. He appealed
to the enlightened Church, conscience and humanity.
The patriot's friends saw that the reform movement was about to be crushed, and said to Rizal:




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"Escape to Hong Kong!"
There was a patriotic club in Hong Kong that
sought the emancipation of the natives of Luzon and
the Philippines from the extortions of Spain.  It
would be well for him now to go there.
"How shall I leave the city? " was the one question that suddenly haunted his mind.
Ile must go by sea. He could not go on board a
ship without being detected and detained.
"Get into a perforated box," said a fellow-patriot,
" and I will ship you with the merchandise."
Dr. Rizal secreted himself in the perforated box,
and was shipped from Luzon to Hong Kong.
lIe was received with great enthusiasm by the
Philippine patriots in Hong Kong.
But lie was more dangerous to the officials of
Luzon in Hong Kong than at Cavite. It became a
problem with the latter how to get him once more
in their power.
The Governor General WAeyler caused a dispatch
to be sent to him which stated that he "was too
valuable a man for the State to lose his services,"
that his past conduct would be overlooked, and that
he could safely return to his own island.
Honest himself, he could not believe that the dispatch was insincere.
Hle went back to Manila. His foes were bent on
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probably to his medical duties, when some soldiers
led by a spy entered his apartments and searched
his trunks and pretended to find there seditious
books.
Dr. Rizal was arrested. His enemies formed the
court to try him for treason.
The books were put out as evidence against
him.
" I imported no books," said he.
"But the books are here."
"The customhouse officers found no books in my
trunks," said Dr. Rizal.
"But here are the books that witness against
you.'"
" There were no books in my room when I left it,"
said he.
" But we found them there."
"Let me call the customhouse officers."
The court refused the request.
" Let me summon the owner of my room."
The court refused the request.
"The witness against me is a convict, a spy, and
a perjurer."
The court found him guilty.
He was sent into exile. The injustice of the trial
was a flame of liberty; the British consul protested
against it, and riots broke out in Cavite against the
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He went again to Hong Kong. WVeyler had left
Luzon, and had been succeeded by Despajol.
His case aroused the Patriot Club. The patriots
resolved to go to Spain and lay their cause before
the throne. They were mobbed in Spain and sent
to Manila for trial.
The trial was a farce; Dr. Rizal was again condenined.
On December 6, 1896, he was led out of the
Manila prison into the courtyard. A file of soldiers
awaited the coming. A sharp volley of shots broke
the stillness of the air; and that heart, so true to liberty, was broken and lay bleeding on the earth. So
perished one of the noblest patriots of the islands of
the China Sea.
AGUINALDO.
AGUINALDO, called "the greatest of the Malays,"
in that he rose against Spanish tyranny, is one of
the interesting characters of the closing century.
His true character can hardly be determined at the
present time. Future events must reveal it. IIe
is of mixed blood, and is said to more resemble a
European than a Malay.
He was born in the province of Cavite, and is
supposed to have European blood in his veins. He
was brought up as a house boy in the apartments
of a Jesuit priest-a house boy being an errand boy;
a boy handy for all common work.
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THIE STORY OF MAGELLAN.


It has been the policy of Spain for centuries to
keep her subjects on the Pacific islands in partial
ignorance; but this bright boy had an impulse to
learn, to acquire knowledge, to grasp the truth of
life. Ile had a remarkable memory, and he became
such an apt scholar as to excite wonder. When he
was fourteen years old
lie entered the medical
school at Manila.   He
lost tlhe favor of the
J itf ^       (ii hlurch by joining the
Ify'  J   Massonic order.
In 1888 lie went to
HIong Kong, where was a
Philippine colony. Here
/~,;,  '~   '~: l he sou lght and obtained a
il,' v qW _ __ _    military education, and
studied military works,
Agluinsaldo.    and the historical campaigns of the world's greatest heroes. lie learned
Latin, Englisll, Frenchll, and Chinese.
At the breaking out of the insurrection of the
Philippines against Spain in   1896, Aguinaldo
espoused the cause of liberty, and was made an
officer and became a leader. The revolution grew
and affected the native troops, and its spirit filled
the archipelago. It became thle purpose of the more
fiery patriots to " drive the Spaniards into the sea."
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sions by the Spanish Government, by which the
rights of the native races should be recognized and
protected. His policy was accepted, and the insurgents disbanded.  Ile received Spanish gold to
abandon the war for independence, and fell under
the suspicion that his patriotism was purchasable.
This suspicion has shadowed his fame. He went to
Hong Kong.
The island Hong Kong, which is English, is a
school of good government. Here Aguinaldo seems
to have conceived an ambition to free the native
races of the archipelago, and form a republic of the
confederated islands.  The Spanish-American War
revealed to him an opportunity to strike for liberty.
Ile said to the Filipinos: " The hour has come."
The Filipinos looked upon him as the man for
the crisis.
An article in the Review of RIeviews represents
the chief as saying to an American naval officer:
"There will be war between your country and
Spain, and in that war you can do the greatest deed
in history by putting an end to Castilian tyranny in
my native land. We are not ferocious savages. On
the contrary, we are unspeakably patient and docile.
That we have risen from time to time is no sign of
bloodthirstiness on our part, but merely of manhood
resenting wrongs which it is no longer able to endure. You Americans revolted for nothing at all
compared with what we have suffered. Mexico and




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the Spanish republics rose in rebellion and swept
the Spaniard into the sea, and all their sufferings
together would not equal that which occurs every
day in the Philippines. We are supposed to be living under the laws and civilization of the nineteenth
century, but we are really living under the practices
of the Middle Ages.
" A man can be arrested in Manila, plunged into
jail, and kept there twenty years without ever having a hearing or even knowing the complaint upon
which he was arrested. There is no means in the
legal system there of having a prompt hearing or of
finding out what the charge is. The right to obtain
evidence by torture is exercised by military, civil,
and ecclesiastical tribunals. To this right there is
no limitation, nor is the luckless witness or defendant permitted to have a surgeon, a counsel, a friend,
or even a bystander to be present during the operation. As administered in the Philippines one man in
every ten dies under the torture, and nothing is ever
heard of him again. Everything is taxed, so that it
is impossible for the thriftiest peasant farmer or
shopkeeper to ever get ahead in life.
"The Spanish policy is to keep all trade in the
hands of the Spanish merchants, who come out
here from the peninsula and return with a fortune. The Government budget for education is no
larger than the sum paid by the Hong Kong authorities for the support of Victoria College here.




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What little education is had in the Philippines is
obtained from the good Jesuits, who, in spite of their
being forbidden to practice their priestly calling in
Luzon, nevertheless devote their lives to teaching
their fellow-countrymen. They carry the same principle into the Church, and no matter how devout,
able, or learned a Filipino or even a half-breed may
be, lie is not permitted to enter a religious order or
ever to be more than an acolyte, sexton, or an insignificant assistant priest. The State taxes the people
for the lands which it says they own, and which
as a matter of fact they have owned from time immemorial, and the Church collects rent for the same
land upon the pretext that it belongs to them under
an ancient charter of which there is no record. Neither life nor limb, liberty nor property have any security whatever under the Spanish administration."
Such was his indictment of Spain.
He began a war for independence from Spain
in the provinces of Luzon. He was an inspiring general and practically made prisoners of some fifteen
thousand of the Spanish forces. He organized a
Government at least nominally Republican, although
it has been called a dictatorship. The purchase of
the Philippines by the United States, in accordance
with the Treaty of Paris, has been opposed by Aguinaldo and his followers in a most distressing war.
He has claimed the absolute independence of all the
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his authority does not extend far beyond certain districts of the Island of Luzon. Without anticipating
the verdict of history upon our relations to the Philippines, it is enough to add that the bloodshed and
suffering caused by this war are most deplorable.
hIONG KONG.
IION(- KONG; and the China Sea have come to
stand not only for Europe in Asia, but for America
in Asia, thougll of the latter, MAanila is the port. The
center of the world's forces changes, and it is a
strange current of events that has made the China
Sea, with its English port of Ilong Kong, and the Luzon port of Manila, facing each other across the blue
ocean way, the pivotal point of not only England in
China, but of America in the East. The Anglo-Chinese community in Hong Kong represents the union
of Europe and Asia in the family of nations, and
America joins the world of the higher civilization
at Manila, the scene of Dewey's victory.
The civilizing history of Hong Kong is largely
associated with Sir John Bowring, whom a large
part of tlhe world recalls merely as a writer of popular hymns; as, " In the Cross of Christ I Glory."
TlIe British free traders secured Hong Kong as a
market for the East, and added it to the British
Empire in tlhe middle of the century. The Suez
Canal increased the importance of Hong Kong.
HIong Kong, not being an integral part of Asia,




Hong Kong




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THE STORY OF MAGELLAN.


became a place of refugees before its union with
the British Empire. It lay in the route of the British possessions in Africa, India, and North America.
Its Urasian destiny was seen in the alliance between
Europe and Asia concluded at Canton (1634) between
the East India Company and the Chinese Government. It then became the vantage ground of the
Anglo-Saxon race. The early English Governors of
Hong Kong made the port the cradle of liberty and
free trade, and a civilizing influence in the East.
The island is some nine miles long and from two
to six miles broad, with a population of more than
one hundred and twenty thousand, most of whom
are Chinese. It was ceded in perpetuity to the British by the treaty of Nankin in 1843, when its Government began to be administered by Colonial Governors, under whom it grew commercially.
The East India Trade Company had prepared the
way for this little Britain in the East. The United
States in the middle of the century began to trade
at Canton from the ports of Boston and Salem. It
is a very curious and almost forgotten fact that the
first cargoes from New England to Canton consisted
largely of ginseng, a plant now little esteemed, but
which at that time had acquired such a medical reputation in China as to be almost worth its weight in
gold. The plant was held to be a magical cure for
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Boston and Salem are still adorned with the tall
and stately mansions of these old merchants, whose
wooden vessels went to the China Sea, at first carrying ginseng and returning with tea. A writer in
a Boston paper thus pictures this period:
" The generation that would not have had to look
at a map to find out where Manila was when George
Dewey arrived there, is almost passed away. These
were the great sailors of their time; men who met
emergencies with nerve and overcame tempest and
adversity with equal complacency, who knew the
merchants of Canton and Calcutta as well as the
merchants of Salem and Boston, and whose tempers
were never ruffled if even stress of circumstance compelled them to put up with a paltry profit of one
hundred per cent. They lived at a time when there
might easily be a fortune in a single freight, and
when one turn round the world might represent
more than a million of money. Most of them lived
before the day of the bill of exchange, and when the
solid old method of carrying specie in the hold was
the familiar business practice.  They knew  the
pirate of the China Sea and he of Barbary, too, for
it was this old-fashioned system of carrying your
capital with you that made the pirates' life worth
living.  They lived before the cable as well, and
from the moment that a ship cleared from Canton
or Manila or Singapore there was no way in the
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to know what she had on board until she arrived
here to speak for herself. Be it silks or teas or whatnot, the merchant must move quickly to bid or buy,
for the nature and value of the cargo could not have
been discounted in advance, while the ship was skimming the oceans. Each vessel made her own market,
and the wharf was the market place. It was good
news, indeed, when a captain with a cargo of teas
was informed by his owners, who may have met him
upon the completion of a two years' cruise, that the
price of tea had advanced the (lay before his arrival.
It was pretty apt to be something in the captain's
own pocket, too, for in those days he was allowed
to carry twenty-five tons of freight for his own private speculation, and a salary of three hundred dollars a month in addition was not uncommon. There
are retired captains on Cape Cod and in Salem and
in the suburbs of Boston to-day who earned a competence in those times of Boston's water-front prosperity. They became masters sometimes before they
were of age, and occasionally there would be one,
like the late r. B. Forbes, who would become a great
merchant, the head of a famous, wealthy house,
known the world over, almost before he realized how
great was the fortune that had overtaken him. And
there was another very nice thing about those old
days of plenty. If a man came home from China
rich, inves-ted his wealth in a railroad or some
manufacturing or mining project that would be




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pretty apt to ruin him, all he would have to do
would be to exile himself, under the right auspices,
for another year or two in China, and then return
to his home and friends with his fortunes quite
mended."
The great merchant at Canton at the time of the
Boston commercial period was Honqua. He was
as noble as he was rich, and Mr. Forbes, the famous
old Boston merchant, relates the following story
of him:
"A New England trader had gone to Canton, and
had been unsuccessful, and owed Honqua one hundred thousand dollars. He desired to return home,
but could not do so if he discharged the debt. Honqua heard of his condition, pitied him, and sent for
him.
"' I shall be sorry to part from you,' he said, ' but
I wish you to return as you so desire, happy and
free. Here are all your notes canceled.'"
Here was superb commercialism.
The American sovereignty over the Philippine
Islands opens the way to China by the China Sea.
In the progress of events the achievements of Magellan have led the ships of the West to the East
again, and it is possible that there may yet be great
Mongol emigrations to the western shores of the
southern continent. The lantern or farol of Magellan was never more prophetic than now. So suggestion lives.




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TRAVELERS' TALES OF THE PHILIPPINES.
HONG KONG is the market place of the Eastern
world. Here the East and West meet in the airy
bazaars, and from it, it is easy to find one's way to
Luzon, over the bright sea mirrors, the sleepy,
dreamy splendors of the China Sea.
But few travelers have written books on Luzon,
and those have usually published them in French or
in Spanish. Travelers from the East have, as a rule,
not remained long on the island, where earthquakes,
typhoons, malarial fevers, and the plague itself have
been not unfrequent visitors, and where one welcomes gratefully the shadows of the night in the
seasons of fervid heat. The rain storms are downpours and deluges that are blinding, but they leave
behind their inky tracts a paradise of beauty and
bloom.
The morning on the China Sea in serene weather
is a royal glory. It has the odors of Araby and the
freshness of an Eden. The earth seems waiting. The
sails hang listlessly on the glassy, breathless straits,
and the sun sheds its splendor through the pale blue
air as powerfully as the clouded heavens poured
down the rain.
The Filipinos are a sensitive race, and many of
them have a keen sense of injustice. Great numbers
of them have a church education, and their views
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of India, China, and Malaysia and Iberian peninsula
from the priests of Spain.
A recent traveler from Manila said to me:
" The Filipinos have hot blood and are revengeful, but they are quick to discern justice. A boy who
attended me at the hotel came to me one day
bleeding.
"' My master has beaten me,' he said, 'with a
rawhide.'
"' Ile has abused you,' I said. ' Why? '
" ' Ie took me into the storeroom and lashed me,
and the rawhide cut me. I bleed.'
"' Why did he punish you? '
"' The porter told him he found me neglecting
my work by hiding away and fighting cocks. It was
not true. The porter lied; he hates me.'
"' Go to the marshal and make a complaint
against the landlord. Go now, before the blood
dries. A master has no right to beat one like that.
It is inhuman. Justice ought to be done.'
" ' But I do not blame him; he is not to blame.
The porter is to blame. The porter lied.'
"' But the marshal would hardly take up your
case against the porter; lie would hold him to be
a person of slight consequence.'
"'But wrong is wrong whether it be done by a
landlord or his porter. The porter should go to
prison for twenty years! '"
The case then dropped, but the boy carried a case




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for revenge against the porter in his heart. He was
quick to discern justice.
Cockfighting is a favorite diversion among the
Filipinos.  A traveler says that he has seen Filipinos going to mass carrying gamecocks under their
arms to set fighting in the cemetery after the
service.
The brutal sport is a passion, and is to be seen
going on almost everywhere on festal days, and in
the evenings in the cool shadows of awnings and
palms.
Alfred Marclihe published a book in Paris in 1887
entitled Luxon and Palaveran; Six Annes de Voyages aux Philippines. It contains some vivid pictures of the natives, of the habits and customs of
the country, of the earthquakes and storms. He describes the earthquake seasons when the earth trembled, and the people rushed wildly into the open
courts at the first tremor.  As great as the terror
was the Chinese did not leave their merchandise unprotected for fear of thieves, showing that the trembling earth did not overcome the nature of the merchant or the native thief. The one would face death
for his goods and the other for his chance of getting
plunder.
Monsieur Marche gives some views of the tropic
jungles, one of which is illustrated by a very curious
anecdote and pictorial illustration.
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he had seen in the woods an immense python, which
seemed to have been gorged with some animal that
he had swallowed, and so rendered sluggish and resistless.
" I should like to see so large a serpent," said the
traveler.
An hour afterward, while he was sitting in the
shadow of his bungalow, an extraordinary sight met
his eyes. The native had gone into the wood and
had put a cord about the neck of the great serpent
and attached it to the horns of a buffalo, and the
buffalo was dragging the python toward the bungalow. The python was seven meters long (thirty-nine
inches to a meter), a distended mass of folds and
flesh (page 356, Alfred Marchel's Luzon).
What had he swallowed?    What creature was
there inside of him that was about to be digested,
and that so distorted his folds?
The serpent was harmless in the noose and from
the weight of his meal.
The traveler severed the python's vertebrae, rendering it inoffensive, and then made an incision into
its abdomen.
A surprise followed. Out of the abdomen came a
calf of some months' growth. The animal's legs were
so doubled under its body as to make the latter horizontal. The serpent was prepared for the museum
of the traveler.
The same traveler describes earthquakes, after




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which victims were fed by tubes let down under the
ponderous debris.
One of the most interesting books of travel in
Luzon that we have ever read is entitled Aventures
d'un Gentilhonmme Breton aux iles Philippines, par
P. de la Gironiere (Paris, 1855).  A part of the
work has been translated into English by Frederick
Hardman, and from this translation in part we
select imaterial for a view of the life of the French
savant in Jala-Jala, a very interesting district of the
island.  The original French work is very vividly
illustrated. The English abridgment is without
illustrations. (French edition, Boston Public Library, No. 3040a, 182. English abridgment, 5049a, 69.)
THE ADVENTURES OF DR. DE LA GIRONIE;RE IN LUZON.
(After Hardman.)
CHANGING TItE IEART OF A BRIGANiD.
"JALA-JALA is a long peninsula, stretching from
north to south into the middle of Bay Lake. The
peninsula is divided longitudinally by a chain of
mountains, which gradually diminish in elevation,
until, for the last three leagues, they dwindle into
mere hills. These mountains, of easy access, are
covered partly with wood and partly with beautiful
pastures, where the grass attains a height of between
one and two yards, and, when waving in the wind,
resembles the waves of the ocean. Finer vegetation
can nowhere be found; it is refreshed by limpid
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springs, flowing from the higher slopes of the mountain down into the lake. Owing to these pastures,
Jala-Jala is richer in game than any other part of
the island of Luzon. Deer, wild boar, and buffalo,
quails, hens, snipes, pigeons of fifteen or twenty
kinds, parrots: in short, all manner of birds, there
abound. The lake teems with water-fowl, and especially with wild ducks. Notwithstanding its extent,
the island contains no dangerous or carnivorous
beasts; the worst things to be feared in that way is
the civet, a little animal about the size of a cat,
which attacks only birds; and the monkeys, which
issue from the forest by troops, and lay waste the
maize and sugar fields.
"The lake, which yields excellent fish, is less
favored than the land; for it contains a great many
caymans, a creature of such enormous size that
in a few minutes it divides a horse piecemeal and
absorbs it into its huge stomach.  The accidents
occasioned by these caymans are frequent and terrible, and I have seen more than one Indian fall
victims to them.
"At the period of my purchase the only human
inhabitants of Jala-Jala were a few Indians, of
Malay extraction, who lived in the woods and tilled
some nooks of land.  At night they were pirates
upon the lake, and they afforded shelter to all the
banditti of the surrounding provinces. The people
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the district; according to them, I should soon be
murdered: my turn for adventure was such, that all
their stories, instead of alarming me, only increased
my desire to visit men who were living almost in a
savage state.
"As soon as I had bought Jala-Jala, I traced for
myself a plan of conduct, having for its object to
attract the banditti to me; to this end, I felt that I
must not appear among them in the character of an
exacting and sordid owner, but in that of a father.
All depended upon the first impressions I should
make upon these Indians, now my vassals. On landing, I went straight to a little hamlet, composed of
a few cabins.
" My faithful coachman was with me; we were
each of us armed with a good double-barreled gun,
a brace of pistols, and a saber. I had already ascertained, from some fishermen, to which Indian I ought
to address myself. This man, who was much respected by his countrymen, was called, in the Tagal
tongue, Mabutin-Tajo, translatable as The brave and
valiant.
"He was quite capable of committing, without
the slightest remorse, five or six murders in the
course of a single expedition; but he was brave; and
courage is a virtue before which all primitive races
respectfully bow. My conversation with MabutinTajo was not long; a few words sufficed to win his
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for the whole time I dwelt at Jala-Jala. This is how
I spoke to him:
" ' You are a great rascal,' I said; ' I am the lord
of Jala-Jala; it is my will that you amend your conduct; if you refuse, you shall expiate all your misdeeds. I want a guard; give me your word of honor
to turn honest man, and I will make you my lieutenant.'
" When I completed this brief harangue, Alila
(that was the brigand's name) remained for a moment silent, his countenance indicating deep reflection. I waited for him to speak; not without a certain degree of anxiety as to what his answer
would be.
"' Master!' he at last exclaimed, offering me his
hand and putting one knee to the ground, ' I will be
faithful to you until death!'
" I was very well pleased with this reply, but I
concealed my satisfaction.
I Tis good,' I said; ' to show you that I have
confidence in you, take this weapon, and use it only
against enemies.'
"I presented him with a Tagal sabre, on which
was inscribed in Spanish: ' Draw me not without
cause, nor sheath me without honor.'
"This legend I translated into Tagal; Alila
thought it sublime, and swore ever to observe it.
' When I go to Manila,' I added,' I will bring you
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lose no time in getting together the soldiers you are
to command, and who will compose my guard. Take
me at once to him among your comrades whom you
think most capable of acting as sergeant.'
" We walked a short distance to the habitation of
a friend of Alila's, who usually accompanied him
on his piratical expeditions. A few words, in the
same strain as those I had spoken to my future lieutenant, produced the same effect on his comrade, and
decided him to accept the rank I offered him. We
passed the day recruiting in the various huts, and
before night we had got together, in cavalry, a guard
of ten men, a number I did not wish to exceed. I
took the command as captain.
" The next day I mustered the population of the
peninsula, and, surrounded by my new guards, I
selected a site for a village, and one for a house for
myself. I gave orders to the fathers of families to
build their cabins upon a line which I marked out,
and I desired my lieutenant to employ all the hands
he could procure in extracting stone, cutting timber, and preparing everything for my dwelling. My
orders given, I set out for Manila, promising soon
to return. On reaching home, I found my friends
uneasy on my account; for, not having heard from
me, they feared I had fallen victim to the caymans
or the pirates. The narrative of my voyage, my description of Jala-Jala, far from making my wife
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on the contrary impatient to visit our property, and
to settle upon it."
Dr. de la Gironiere lived many years at Jala-Jala
in the peninsula country. He relates many adventures in the primitive forests, one of which is as
follows:
A BUFFALO HUNT IN JALA-JALA.
"THE Indians consider the pursuit of the buffalo
the most dangerous of all hunts; and my guards
told me they would rather place their naked breast
at twenty paces from a rifle's muzzle than find
themselves at the same distance from a wild buffalo. The difference is, they say, that a rifle bullet
may only wound, whereas a buffalo's horn is sure
to kill.
"Taking advantage of their fear of the buffalo,
I one day informed them, with all the coolness I
could assume, of my intention to hunt that animal.
Thereupon they exerted all their eloquence to dissuade me from my project; they drew a most picturesque and intimidating sketch of the dangers
and difficulties I should encounter; I, especially, as
one unaccustomed to that sort of fight-for such a
chase is in fact a life or death contest. I would
not listen to them. I had declared my will; I would
not discuss the subject, or attend to their advice.
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dangers I was about to run, were given and drawn
by way of snare; they had agreed among themselves to estimate my courage accordingly as I accepted or avoided the combat. My only reply was
an order to get everything in readiness for the
hunt. I took care that my wife should know nothing of the expedition, and I set out, accompanied
by a dozen Indians, almost all armed with guns.
"The buffalo is hunted differently in the plain
and in the mountains. In the plain, all that is
needed is a good horse, agility, and skill in throwing the lasso. In the mountains, an extraordinary
degree of coolness is requisite.  This is how the
thing is done: The hunter takes a gun, upon which
he is sure lie can depend, and so places himself that
the buffalo, on issuing from the forest, must perceive him. The very instant the brute sees you, he
rushes upon you with his very utmost speed, breaking, crushing, trampling under foot, everything that
impedes his progress. He thunders down upon you
as though he would annihilate you; at a few paces
distance, he pauses for a moment, and presents his
sharp and menacing horns.
"It is during that brief pause that the hunter
must take his shot, and send a bullet into the center
of his enemy's brow. If unfortunately the gun
misses fire, or if his hand trembles and his ball
goes askew, he is lost-Providence alone can save
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but I was determined to run the chance. We
reached the edge of a large wood, in which we felt
sure that buffaloes were; and there we halted. I
was sure of my gun; I thought myself tolerably sure
of my coolness, and I desired that the hunt should
take place as if I had been a common Indian. I
stationed myself on a spot over which everything
made it probable that the animal would pass, and
I suffered no one to remain near me. I sent every
man to his post, and remained alone on the open
ground, two hundred paces from the edge of the
forest, awaiting a foe who would assuredly show
me no mercy if I missed him.
" That is certainly a solemn moment in which
one finds himself placed thus between life and
death, all depending on the goodness of a gun, and
on the steadiness of the hand that grasps it.  I
quietly waited. When all had taken up their positions, two men entered the forest, having previously
stripped off a part of their clothes, the better to
climb the trees in case of need. They were armed
only with cutlasses, and accompanied by dogs. For
more than half an hour a mournful silence reigned.
We listened with all our ears, but no sound was
heard.
"The buffalo is often very long before giving
sign of life. At last the reiterated barking of the
dogs, and the cries of the prickers, warned us that
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the branches and young trees, which broke before
him as he threaded the forest with frightful rapidity. The noise of his headlong career was to be
compared only to the gallop of several horses, or to
the rush of some monstrous and fantastical creature; it was like the approach of an avalanche. At
that moment, I confess, my emotion was so great
that my heart beat with extraordinary rapidity.
Was it death, a terrible death, that thus approached
me? Suddenly the buffalo appeared. He stood for
a moment, glared wildly about him, snuffed the air
of the plain, and then, his nostrils elevated, his
horns thrown back upon his shoulders, charged down
upon me with terrible fury.
" The decisive moment had come. A victim
there must be-either the buffalo or myself-and
we were both disposed to defend ourselves stoutly.
I should be puzzled to describe what passed within
me during the short time the animal took to traverse the interval between us. My heart, which had
beat so violently when I heard him tearing through
the forest, no longer throbbed. My eyes were fixed
upon his forehead with such intensity that I saw
nothing else. There was a sort of deep silence
within me. I was too much absorbed to hear anything-even the baying of the dogs as they followed
their prey at a short distance.
"At last the buffalo stopped, lowered his head,
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fired. My bullet pierced his skull-I was half
saved. He fell to the ground, just a pace in
front of me, with the ponderous noise of a mass
of rock. I put my foot between his horns and was
about to fire my second barrel, when a hollow and
prolonged roar informed me that my victory
was complete. The buffalo was dead. My Indians
came up. Their joy turned to admiration; they
were delighted; I was all that they wished me
to be.
" Their doubts had been dissipated with the
smoke of my gun; I was brave, I had proved it, and
they had now entire confidence in me. My victim
was cut up, and carried in triumph to the village.
In right of conquest I took his horns; they were six
feet in length; I have since deposited them in the
Nantes museum.    The Indians, those lovers of
metaphor, those givers of surnames, thenceforward
called me Malahtit Ouloit-Tagal words, signifying
cool head.'
The traveler describes the cayman, which is of
enorious size-the whale of the oozy lagoon. He
relates the followinog adventure with a boa:
THE BOA OF LUZON.
"THE other monster of which I have promised
a description, the boa, is common in the Philippines, but it is rare to meet with a very large
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turies (?) are necessary for this reptile to attain its
largest size; and to such an age the various accidents to which animals are exposed rarely suffer it
to attain. Full-sized boas are met with only in the
gloomiest, most remote, and most solitary forests.
"I have seen
many boas of or-            /.
dinaSeveral tizes,           A boa.such
as are found in
our European cothe spot
lections.  There
were somey           indeevariably found
that inhabited myf. (See book for
house; andti one
night I found one, '
two yards long, in
possession of my  ___._
"Several times,            A boa.
passing through
the woods    with my Indians, I heard the piercing
cries of a wil    d boar. On approaching the spot
whence they proceeded we almost invariably found
a wild boar, about whose body a boa had twisted its
folds, and was gradually hoisting him up into the
tree round which it had coiled itself. (See book for
illustration.)
"When the wild boar had reached a certain
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a force that crushed his bones and stifled him.
Then the boa let its prey fall, descended the tree,
and prepared to swallow what it had slain. This
last operation was much too lengthy for us to await
its end.
" To simplify matters, I sent a ball into the boa's
head. Then my Indian took the flesh to dry (bucanier) it, and the skin for dagger sheaths. It is
unnecessary to say that the wild boar was not
forgotten. It was a prey that had cost us little
pains.
" One day an Indian surprised one of these reptiles asleep, after it had swallowed an enormous
doe deer. Its size was such that a buffalo cart
would have been required to transport it to the village.
" The Indian cut it in pieces, and contented himself with as much as he could carry off. I sent for
the remainder. They brought me a piece about
eight feet long, and so large that the skin, when
dried, enveloped the tallest man like a cloak. I
gave it to my friend Lindsay.
"I had not yet seen one of the full-grown reptiles, of which the Indians spoke to me so much
(always with some exaggeration), when one afternoon, crossing the mountains with two shepherds,
our attention was attracted by the sustained barking of my dogs, who seemed assailing some animal
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it was a buffalo which they had brought to bay, and
approached the spot with precaution.
" My dogs were dispersed along the brink of a
deep ravine, in which was an enormous boa. The
monster raised his head to a height of five or six
feet, directing it from one edge to the other of the
ravine, and menacing his assailants with his forked
tongue; but the dogs, more active than he was, easily avoided his attacks. My first impulse was to
shoot him, but then it occurred to me to take himn
alive and send him to France. Assuredly he would
have been the most monstrous boa that had ever
been seen there. To carry out my design, we manufactured nooses of cane, strong enough to resist the
most powerful wild buffalo. With great precaution we succeeded in passing one of our nooses
round the boa's neck; then we tied him tightly to a
tree, in such a manner as to keep its head at its
usual height-about six feet from the ground.
"This done, we crossed to the other side of the
ravine and threw another noose over him, which
we secured like the first. When he felt himself
thus fixed at both ends, he coiled and writhed, and
grappled several little trees which grew within his
reach along the edge of the ravine. Unluckily for
him, everything yielded to his efforts; he tore up
the young trees by the roots, broke off the branches,
and dislodged enormous stones, round which he
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ance he needed. The nooses were strong, and withstood his most furious efforts. To convey an animal like this several buffaloes and a whole system
of cordage was necessary. Night approached; confident in our nooses we left the place, proposing to
return next morning and complete the capturebut we reckoned without our host. In the night
the boa changed his tactics, got his body round
some huge blocks of basalt, and finally succeeded
in breaking his bonds and getting clear off. I was
greatly disappointed, for I doubted whether I
should ever have another chance.
" Human beings rarely fall victims to these huge
reptiles. I was able to verify but one instance. A
criminal hid from justice in a cavern. His father,
who alone knew of his hiding place, went sometimes
to see him and to take him rice. One day he found,
instead of his son, an enormous boa asleep.  He
killed it, and found his son's body in its stomach.
The priest of the village, who went to give the body
Christian burial, and who saw the remains of the
boa, described it to me as of almost incredible size."
AN ADVENTURE WITH A MONSTER CAYMAN.
"AT the period at which I first occupied my habitation and began to colonize the village of JalaJala, caymans abounded upon that side of the lake.
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the water, and waylaying and snapping at the dogs
that ventured too near the brink. One day a female servant of my wife's having been so imprudent
as to bathe at the edge of the lake was surprised
by one of them, a monster of enormous size. One
of my guards came up at the very moment she was
being carried off; he fired his carbine at the brute
and hit it under the fore-leg (the armpit), which is
the only vulnerable place. But the wound was insufficient to check the cayman's progress, and it disappeared with its prey. Nevertheless, this little
bullet-hole was the cause of its death; and here it
is to be noted that the slightest wound received
by the cayman is incurable. The shrimps, which
abound in the lake, get into the hurt; little by little
their number increases, until at last they penetrate
deep into the solid flesh and into the very interior
of the body. This is what happened to the one
which devoured my wife's maid. A month after the
accident the monster was found dead upon the bank
five or six leagues from my house. Indians brought
me back the unfortunate woman's earrings, which
they had found in its stomach.
" Upon another occasion a Chinese was riding
with me. We reached a river, and I let him go on
alone in order to ascertain whether the river was
very deep or not. On a sudden three or four caymans, which lay in waiting under the water, threw
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peared, and for some minutes the water was tinged
with blood.
"I was very curious to obtain a near sight of one
of these voracious monsters. At the time that they
frequented the vicinity of my house I made several
attempts to attain that end. One night I baited a
hugre hook, secured by a chain and strong cord, with
an entire sheep. Next morning sheep and chain
had disappeared. I lay in wait for the creatures
with my gun, but the bullets rebounded from their
scales. A large dog, of a race peculiar to the Philippines and exceeding any European dog in size,
happening to die, I had his carcase dragged to the
shore of the lake; I then hid myself in a little thicket and waited, with my gun in readiness, the coming
of a casyman. But presently I fell asleep, and when
I awoke the dog had disappeared. It was fortunate the cayman had not taken the wrong prey.
" When the colony of Jala-Jala had been a few
years founded, the caymans disappeared from its
neighborhood. I was out one morning with my
shepherds, at a few leagues from my house, when
we came to a river which must be swum across.
One of them advised me to ascend it to a narrower
place, for that it was full of caymans, and I was
about to do so when another Indian, more imprudent than his companions, spurred his horse into
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we saw a cayman of monstrous size advancing toward him. We uttered a shout of warning; he at
once perceived the danger, and, to avoid it, got off
his horse at the opposite side to that upon which
the cayman was approaching, and swam with all
his strength toward the bank. On reaching it, he
paused behind a fallen tree-trunk, where he had
water to his knees, and where, believing himself in
perfect safety, lie drew his cutlass and waited.
Meanwhile the cayman reared his enormous head
out of the water, threw himself upon the horse, and
seized him by the saddle. The horse made an effort,
the girths broke, and, while the cayman crunched
the leather, the steed reached dry land. Perceiving
that the saddle was not what lie wanted, the cayman dropped it and advanced upon the Indian. We
shouted to him to run. The poor fellow would not
stir, but waited calmly, cutlass in hand, and, on the
alligator's near approach, dealt him a blow upon the
head. HIe might as well have tapped upon an anvil.
The next instant lie was writhing in the monster's
jaws. For more than a minute we beheld him
dragged in the direction of the lake, his body erect
above the surface of the water (the cayman had
seized him by the thigh), his hands joined, his eyes
turned to heaven, in the attitude of a man imploring divine mercy. Soon lie disappeared. The
drama was over, the cayman's stomach was his
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"During this agonizing moment we had all remained silent, but no sooner had my poor shepherd
disappeared than we vowed we would avenge his
death.
" I had three nets made of strong cord, each net
large enough to form a complete barrier across the
river. I also had a hut built, and put an Indian to
live in it, whose duty was to keep constant watch
and to let mie know as soon as the cayman returned
to the river. lie watched in vain for upward of two
months; but at the end of that time he camie and
told me that the monster had seized a horse and
dragged it into the river to devour it at leisure. I
immediately repaired to the spot, accompanied by
my guards, by my priest, who positively would see
a cayman hunt, and by an American friend of mine,
Mr. Russell, of the house of Russell and Sturgis,
who was then staying with me. I had the nets
spread at intervals, so that the cayman could not
escape back into the lake. This operation was not
effected without some acts of imprudence; thus, for
instance, when the nets were arranged, an Indian
dived to make sure that they reached the bottom,
and that our enemy could not escape by passing
below them. But it might very well have happened
that the cayman was in the interval between the
nets, and so have gobbled up my Indian. Fortunately everything passed as we wished. When all
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tened together side by side, with some Indians in
the center, armed with lances, and with tall bamboos with which they could touch bottom. At last,
all measures having been taken to attain my end
without any risk or accident, my Indians began to
explore the river with their long bamboos.
"An animal of such formidable size as the one
we sought can not very easily hide himself, and soon
we beheld him upon the surface of the river, lashing the water with his long tail, snapping and clattering with his jaws, and endeavoring to get at
those who dared disturb him in his retreat. A universal shout of joy greeted his appearance; the Indians in the pirogues hurled their lances at him,
while we, upon either shore of the river, fired a volley. The bullets rebounded from the monster's
scales, which they were unable to penetrate; the
keener lances made their way between the scales
and entered the cayman's body some eight or ten
inches. Thereupon he disappeared, swimming with
incredible rapidity, and reached the first net.
"The resistance it opposed turned him; he reascended the river, and again appeared on the top
of the water. This violent movement broke the
staves of the lances which the Indians had stuck
into him, and the iron alone remained in the
wounds. Each time that he reappeared the firing
recommenced, and fresh lances were plunged into
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effectual firearms were to pierce his cuirass of invulnerable scales, I excited him by my shouts and
gestures; and when he came to the edge of the
water, opening his enormous jaws all ready to devour me, I approached the muzzle of my gun to
within a few inches and fired both barrels, in the
hope that the bullets would find something softer
than scales in the interior of that formidable cavern, and that they would penetrate to his brain.
All was in vain. The jaws closed with a terrible
noise, seizing only the fire and smoke that issued
from my gun, and the balls flattened against his
bones without injuring them. The animal, which
had now become furious, made inconceivable efforts
to seize one of his enemies; his strength seemed to
increase instead of diminishing, while our resources
were nearly exhausted. Almost all our lances were
sticking in his body, and our ammunition drew to
an end. The fight had lasted more than six hours,
without any result that could make us hope its
speedy termination, when an Indian struck the cayman, while at the bottom of the water, with a lance
of unusual strength and size.
"Another Indian struck two vigorous blows with
a mace upon the butt end of the lance; the iron
entered deep into the animal's body, and immediately, with a movement as swift as lightning, he
darted toward the nets and disappeared. The
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to the surface of the water; for some minutes we
waited in vain for the monster's reappearance; we
thought that his last effort had enabled him to
reach the lake, and that our chase was perfectly
fruitless. We hauled in the first net, a large hole in
which convinced us that our supposition was correct. The second net was in the same condition as
the first. Disheartened by our failure, we were
hauling in the third when we felt a strong resistance. Several Indians began to drag it toward
the bank, and presently, to our great joy, we
saw the cayman upon the surface of the water, expiring.
" We threw over him several lassos of strong
cords, and when he was well secured we drew him
to land. It was no easy matter to haul him up on
the bank; the strength of forty Indians hardly sufficed. When at last we had got him completely out
of the water, and had him before our eyes, we stood
stupefied with astonishment; for a very different
thing was it to see his body thus, and to see him
swimming when he was fighting against us.  Mr.
Russell, a very competent person, was charged with
his measurement. From the extremity of the nostrils to the tip of the tail he was found to be twentyseveni feet long, and his circumference was eleven feet,
measured under the armpits. His belly was much
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he had breakfasted must considerably have increased his bulk."
SWIFTS.
THE edible swallows' nests are found in most of
the islands of the Eastern archipelago.
A traveler, Mr. H. Pryer, who made a visit to one
of the swifts' caves in Borneo, thus describes the
coming and the going of the dusky birds:
" At a quarter past six in the evening the swifts
began to return to the caves of their nests; a few
had been flying in and out all day long, but now
they began to pour in, at first in tens and then in
hundreds, until the sound of their wings was like
a strong gale of wind whistling through the rigging
of a ship.
"They continued flying until after midnight. As
long as it remained light I found it impossible to
catch any with my butterfly net, but after dark I
found it only necessary to wave my net to secure
as many as I wanted.
" They must possess wonderful powers of sight
to fly about in the dark of the recesses of their caves
and to return to their nests, which are often built
in places where no light penetrates."
The edible nests are a luxury in China, where
they are used in soups. The bird makes her nest
of saliva, and plasters it on to the rocks inside of
caves. The nests are collected by means of boats,




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ropes, and ladders, and bring in the Chinese market
from ~2 to ~7 per pound. There have been imported
to Canton more than eight million nests in a single
year.
Such are some views of life inside of the vast
possession of the sea which Magellan discovered for
Spain, but which has fallen under the folds of the
flag of the Republic of the West.


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