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6 VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. 
watch, sold four hundred head of the 
cattle whom they had taken, back again 
to the Moors ; and when they had been 
safely driven off, gave the alarm that 
they were stolen. ‘The circumstances of 
this knavery are singular, but the crime 
has been common. Cortes plundered his 
own soldiers, and the history of prize 
money, from the first conquest in the 
West Indies to the last, seems to contra- 
dict a common adage. Ruy Falero’s 
character has been defamed with less 
appearance of reason ; they say he knew 
nothing of astrology, astronomy, or geo- 
raphy, and that whatever came from 
a upon these sciences was by the help 
of a familiar spirit. Ruy Falero want- 
ed to bring the Moluccas on the Spanish 
side of the line of demarcation. If the 
devil had any thing to do with that line, 
it must have been that he was concerned 
with the Pope in drawing it; a geogra- 
phical dispute may be carried on with- 
out his assistance. But whatever may 
have been the former crimes of Magal- 
haens and Falero, it is certain that in 
this project they acted as enemies to their 
own country, and the ineffaceable blot 
must remain upon them. 
«« There yet exist accounts of the naviga- 
tion of Magalhanes that have not been pub- 
lished. In Biblioth. Pinelo de Leon, two 
manuscripts are mentioned under the title 
of Navegacion de Magallanes; one of them 
with the name of Duarte de Resendi, at one 
time governor or agent for the Portuguese at 
the Moluccas (Factor de las Malucas) of 
whom Argensola says, that he was ‘a curi- 
ous man,’ and that he preserved likewise the 
papers of Andres de San Martin.” 
These papers of the unfortunate as- 
trologer, Andres de San Martin, were 
a by Duarte de Rezende to the 
istorian Barros; he says that the obser- 
vations were purposely falsified by An- 
dres to favour the Spanish claim; this 
circumstance was confessed by one of 
the crew, who died afterward on his 
way to India in a Portugueze vessel. 
Barros calls this man Bustamente, and 
the name appears in Herrera’s list of the 
eighteen Europeans who returned. It 
is certain that Rezende wrote an.ac- 
count of the voyage and dedicated it 
to Barros, who was his kinsman. This 
manuscript, if it could be recovered, 
would probably be very valuable. 
On the 20th of September 1519, Ma- 
galhaens sailed from San Lucar, with a 
squadfon of fiveships and 236 men ; he 
had scarcely passed Teneriffe before his 
offcets began to murmur at the course 
he held. At Rio Janeiro they purchas- 
ed provisions, &c. for slaves ; it was then 
a cheaper market than it is now, for the 
natives gave six fowls for the king out of 
a pack of cards, and thought they had 
made a good bargain. It was Easter be- 
fore they reached a port which they cal- 
led San Julian, in latitude 49° 18’ south; 
here the commander determined to pass 
the winter season ; his people wanted to 
return : the traitor is never trusted; they 
argued that Magalhaens wished to pur- 
chase his pardon from the king of Portu. 
gal by destroying a Spanish fleet. No- 
thing could be more absurd than such a 
supposition, but there is no absurdity 
which, if it heightens fear, the fearful 
will not believe. The officers deeply 
hated their general, thinking it was a 
disgrace that Spaniards should be com- 
manded by a Portugueze. ‘The man- 
ners of Magalhaens were ill calculated to 
conciliate their hostile spirits, he was 
a resolute and even headstrong man, 
conscious of his natural superiority, and 
provoked to thefull exercise of his power 
by the thwartings of envy and mutinous 
pride. Three of his captains conspired 
against him ; he possessed the confidence 
of the inferior officers and seamen, among 
whom-were several of his country, and 
lost no time in quelling these enemies. 
On board the one ship he sent a man 
with a letter to the captain, and a dagger 
to stab him while reading it ; this assas- 
sination restored his authority there. He 
boarded the second ship and secured the 
mutineers, and then the third submitted. 
One of the captains was hung and quar- 
tered, the other set on shore with a 
French priest and left there. While 
Magalhaens remained here, ore of his 
ships was wrecked, in an attempt to ex- 
plore the coast; the crew was however 
saved. 
«The fleet had lain two months in Port San 
Julian, without any natives having been seen, 
One day, when it was least expected, a. man, 
of a gigantic figure, appeared on the beach 
nearest the ships. He was almost naked: he 
sung and danced, at the same time sprink- 
ling dust upon his head. Aseaman was set on 
shore, with orders to make gestures similar 
to those of the Indian; intended for signals 
of amity, which was so well performed and 
comprehended, that the ¢ giant’ accompanied 
him to the captain general. He pointed to 
the sky, as if to enquire whether the Spa- 
niards had feasictalen from above. The ob- 
ject which most_astonished him, was his 
own figure in a looking-glass ; at thé first 
