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eeived from the general; he and his men 
looking quietly at what was passing, with- 
out moving from their canoes. Early in the 
retreat, Magalhanes was wounded in the 
leg by an arrow; his person being known to 
the Indians, their aNecis were principally 
directed against him. ‘The boats were still 
at a distance, the shore being flat and rocky ; 
and many of the Spaniards, instead of mak- 
ing an orderly retreat, hastened towards them 
with precipitation. ‘The helmet of Magal- 
hanes was twice beaten off with stones; his 
right arm being wounded, he could not use 
his sword ; and being closely pressed cn b 
miultitudes, he was brought to the ground. 
When be was down, an Indian killed him 
with a lance.” 
The king of Zebu now determined to 
make his peace with the chiefs whom 
he had offended, by sacrificing the 
Spaniards who had encouraged him to 
acts of ambitious aggression. He invited 
the two new commanders and officers to 
anentertainment ashore, that they might 
receive the presents designed for the em- 
peror ; they went, and were all murdered 
at the banguet, exeept Serrano, who was 
much in favour with the Indians. Him 
they led down, manacled and naked, to 
the shore, for the ships had begun to fire 
upon the town. He begged his country- 
men. to desist from firing, for his sake, 
and intreated to be ransomed, the In- 
dians demanding two pieces of ordnance 
for his release. Carvallo, who was the 
principal officer remaining, affected to 
apprehend farther treachery, hoisted sail 
and fied, leaving Serrano to their mercy: 
from his cries, which were heard on 
board, it was believed that he was imme- 
diately put to death. Carvallo acted 
this base and cowardly part, because he 
expected to be chosen commander in 
chief, as in fact he was. 
Their number was now reduced to 115 
men, too small a company for the ma- 
nagement and defence of three ships, 
the oldest was therefore burnt. At the 
different islands whereby they passed 
they enquired for Borneo, knowing that 
there they should obtain notice of the 
Moluccas. They reached this island in 
July. 
Here also the’Spaniards were treache- 
rously treated, not from any misconduct 
of their own, but from that justifiable 
hostility with which all the Asiatics re- 
garded Europeans, after the arrival of 
Vasco da Gama in India, Three of 
their little company were made prisoners, 
and by some unaccountable mismanage- 
ment were left in the king of Borneo’s 
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power, though the Spaniards in reprisal 
carried away nineteen of his subjects. 
In November they reached Tidore, 
thus accomplishing their outward voyage. 
Here they formed alliances with the 
native kings, which occasioned many an 
after dispute with the Portugueze, and 
here they took ina cargo of spices. As 
they were departing the Trinidad sprung 
a leak; the king of Tidore sent divers 
to examine her bottom, they dived with 
their long hair loose, because they ima- 
gined that the water entering the ship 
would draw the hair to that part and in- 
dicate the place of the leak. It was 
found necessary to careen her, and as 
this would be a work of time, it was de- 
termined that the Vitoria should pro- 
ceed without delay to Europe by the 
Cape of Good Hope. On their home- 
ward voyage they found at Mallua a 
people, “ more resembling brute bedsts 
than men ;”’ so they are described, yet 
the absurdity of their fashions is pecue 
liar to humanity: before and behind 
they wore pieces of goats-skin made into 
the form of tails; they wrapped their 
beards up in leaves and kept them enve- 
loped in reed-cases. A Molucca pilot 
told them of a stranger race whose ears 
were solong, that one served the purpose 
of a mattress to sleep on, and the other 
for a coverlid. It must have been 
amusing to see one of these gentlemen 
take up his bed and walk. They suf- 
fered severely on their passage, losing 
in all 21 men. We observed, says Piga~ 
fetta, when the dead bodies were cast 
into the sea, that the christians descend- 
ed always with their faces toward hea- 
ven, and the Indians with their faces 
downwards. 
On the sixth of September 1522 the 
Vitoria arrived at San Lucar, the num- 
ber of Europeans remaining in her bein 
only eighteen. Magalhaens had saile 
from the same port with five ships and 
236 men. Three years within fourteen 
days were employed in this voyage, 
which Captain Burney well calls, “ one 
of the most extraordinary and eventful 
that has ever been undertaken, a voyage 
so forcibly conveying those impressions 
which can only be communicated by a 
first discovery, that it will always be 
contemplated with interest. While the 
advancement of science shall continue to 
interest mankind, Magalhaens, whose 
enterprize and perseverance first prac- 
tically demonstrated the form of our 
planet, will be remembered with admira- 
