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many suffered, that nineteen died, and the other 



giant, and an Indian from the county of Verzin. 



Besides those who died, twenty-five or thirty fell 



ill of divers sicknesses, both in the arms and legs, 



and other places, in such manner that very few 



remained healthy. However, thanks be to the 



Lord, I had no sickness. During those three 



months and twenty days we went in an open 



sea, while we ran fully four thousand leagues in 



the Pacific sea. This was well named Pacific, for 



during this same time we met with no storm, and 



saw no land except two small uninhabited islands, 



in which we found only birds and trees. We 



named them the Unfortunate Islands ; they are 



two hundred leagues apart from one another, and 



there is no place to anchor, as there is no bottom. 



There we saw many sharks, which are a kind of 



large fish which they call Tiburoni. The first isle 



is in fifteen degrees of austral latitude, and the 



other is in nine degrees. With the said wind we 



ran each day fifty or sixty leagues, or more ; now 



with the wind astern, sometimes on a wind or 



otherwise. And if our Lord and his Mother had 



not aided us in giving us good weather to refresh 



ourselves with provisions and other thmgs, we 



should all have died of hunger in this very vast 



sea, and I think that never man will undertake to 



perform such a voyage. 



Ferdifta7td Magellan. 



