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preponderated. The officers and crews of both ships were 
healthy, and elated with the prospect before them; our vessels 
were in every respect strong and sea-worthy ; and we were 
possessed of every comfort and resource necessary for encoun- 
tering much greater difficulties than we had any reason to 
anticipate. 
There has existed much difference of opinion as to the correct mode 
of spelling the name of the celebrated navigator who discovered this 
Strait. The French and English usually write it Magellan, and the 
Spaniards Magallanes; but by the Portuguese (and he was a native of 
Portugal) it is universally written Magalhaens. Admiral Burney and 
Mr. Dalrymple spell it Magalhanes, which mode I have elsewhere 
adopted, but I have since convinced myself of the propriety of following 
the Portuguese orthography for aname which, to this day, is very common 
both in Portugal and Brazil. 
