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and not of Spain, as they subsequently became through the public 

 renunciation of Maghallanes to his rights as a Portuguese citizen, 

 and his assumption of the fosterage of Spain, with the result of his 

 entering into a contract with the King of Spain to seek and discover 

 these islands of which he (Maghallanes) had heard. Sufficient to 

 say, that Maghallanes, knighted and invested with the habit of St. 

 James, set sail from the harbor of San Lucor de Boramida, August, 

 1519, in command of a fleet of five small vessels, which was to figure 

 in history as not only the first to formally discover the Philippine 

 Islands but the first to circumnavigate the globe, thus proving the 

 theory of Aristotle and Ptolemy. 



After twenty -one months of privation, scurvy, mutiny and deser- 

 tion Maghallanes entered the Butan River on the Island of Min- 

 hanao, and effecting a landing without any opposition from the 

 natives, took possession in the name of King Charles of Spain, 

 thereby realizing his one ambition to discover those islands which 

 had been his constant dream for years. Thus in part he was 

 recompensed for the bitterness of the past, but he was not decreed 

 by fate to enjoy the fruits of his discovery, as he fell mortally 

 wounded by a poisoned arrow soon after in a conflict with the 

 natives on the island of Magtan. The command of this expedition 

 fell to Duorte de Borbosa, who also met his death soon after at the 

 hands of the natives of the island of Cebu. Juan Corobola, next 

 in command, finding his ships in a leaky condition and crews 

 insufficient in number abandoned all the ships except the Victoria, 

 and returned to Spain, first touching at Borneo and the Molaccas, 

 arriving in the harbor of San Lucor, September 6, 1522. Again 

 in 1542 a second expedition from Spain under Villalobos touched 

 on the island of Luzon. Here, like his predecessors, he met his 

 death. From 1542 to 1564 no more expeditions were sent out by 

 Spain. Finally, on account of the bitter jealousy existing between 

 Spain and Portugal over new acquisitions of territory, another 

 expedition was dispatched by King Philip, under Maguil Lopez de 

 Legaspi, in November, 1564. This expedition encountered even 

 more opposition from the natives than the former ones, and for a 

 period of five years Legaspi was busily engaged forcibly colonizing 

 these people. On the twenty-fourth of June, 1571, the city of 

 Manila was incorporated as the capital city of the archipelago, after 

 a treaty had been consummated with the native Rajahs, Dolumal 

 and Lacaubola. 



