8 VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. 
in the Ambrosian library, and being 
reasonably satisfied with the fullest and 
most authentic copy, did not think it 
necessary to examine an abridgment. 
But it is very probable that Pigafetta’s 
original manuscripts differed from each 
other, that in writing one he recollect- 
ed particulars which he had forgot- 
ten, or from haste or indolence had 
omitted in another, and that thus the 
abridgment’ of one copy may supply 
what is wanting in the entire text of an- 
other. ats 
* The conduct of the Spaniards to these 
unoffending people was truly abomin- 
able. “They filled their hands with toys 
andlittle things that pleasedthem, and in 
the mean-time put ironshackles upontheir 
Jegs, which the wretches thought were 
very fine play-things as well as the rest, 
and were pleased with the jingling sound 
of them, till they found how they were 
hampered and betrayed.” ~ Pigafetta 
says they worshipped the devil ; the Pata- 
yOnians had more reason to say the same 
' f their visitors, judging them by their 
rorks. 
pA Toward the latter end of October they 
came to the Cape called De las Virgines, 
in honour of the eleven thousand com- 
panions of Saint Ursula, on whose festi- 
val they had discovered it. On examin- 
ing the strait, little doubt remained that 
it would lead them to the South Sea; but 
it appeared on enquiry that they ‘had 
only provisiors enough for three months 
Jeft: upon this Magalhaens summoned 
acouncil. One of his pilots voted for 
returning to Spain, the majority were 
for proceeding, and the commander him- 
self affirmed, that, were it even certain 
they should be reduced to the necessity 
of eating the hides that were on the 
ships yards, his determination was to 
‘proceed and make good his promises to 
the emperor. Hethen gave orders that 
mo one, on pain of death, should speak of 
‘returning, or of the shortness of provi- 
sions. 
The account given by Joam de Barros 
differs materially from this. Captain 
Burney has not noticed it ; it is however 
drawn from such documents as entitles it 
to credit. He says, that, after one of 
the ships had deserted (an event which 
the other histories represent as sub- 
sequent to the council), Magalhaens, 
knowing that the greater part of his 
people were hostile to him and his plans, 
was exceedingly perplexed. For his 
own justification he was obliged to ask 
the opinion of his officers, and yet fear- 
ed to call a council, lest they should 
break out into mutiny. He therefore 
sent a written paper to the two other 
ships, requiring the written opinion of 
the officers in reply. Barros affirms 
that he had a book in his possession, in 
which Andres de San Martin, the astro- 
loger and cosmographer of the voyage, 
had entered this paper and his own re- 
ly to it, and he gives both at length. 
Tn this Magalhzens says, that he is aman 
who never rejected advice, though since 
the mutiny at Port San Julian they had 
all been afraid to declare their opinions; 
that he knew they thought it wrong to 
proceed, but he commandec them in the 
name of the emperor, and by virtue of 
his own authority, each to give him his 
written opinion whether to advance or 
return, and the reasons for such conclu; 
sion. San Martin in his answer advises 
the commander to go on till the middle 
of January, for though he himseif doubts 
whether they should find a passage to 
India through that strait, still they were 
bound to examine it. After that time 
he thought they should return, because 
of the terriblenessvand tempestuousness 
(terribilidade e tempesiuosidade ) of the sea- 
sons, the sickly condition of the crew, and 
the scarcity of food. Andres also re- 
commends that during the five hours cf 
darkness they should lie to, for the sake 
of avoiding danger and of giving the 
men some rest. ‘These papers are dated 
November 22. On the 27th they found 
themselves in an open sea, and Magal- 
haens is said to have wept for joy at the 
discovery. 
The adventurers now suffered dread- 
fully in their voyage. Magalhaens was 
reduced to that extremity @f hunger 
which he had declared himself ready to 
endure; they a@ually were compelled 
to eat theleather from off the rigging, to 
swallow saw-dust, and to mix sea water 
with their fresh. Twenty men died of the 
scurvy. Happily the weather continued 
so uniformly mild that they gave the sea 
its appellation of the Pacific: for it ap- 
pears peculiarly unfortunate, that in cros- 
sing so largé an expanse of sea, in which 
so many fruitful islands are numerously 
scattered, they should see only two soli- 
tary and desert islands, so destitute of 
any thing to relieve them, that they nam- 
“ed them Las Desventuradas, the Unfor- 
tunate. -Captain Burney conceives that 
‘they passed very near Otaheite. 
On the sixth of March they came in 
