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" September" (Nicol.), a synod at Tours. On the war about to be declared by Louis XII., sup- 

 porting the duke of Ferrara against pope Julius II. 



" 'S I! . April" (Galvan., and De Morga 12), sailing from Cochin Albuquerque obtained posses- 

 sion of the city of Malacca.* "July," by returning Chinese he sent Duarte Fernandez with letters to 

 Siam ; who, "being the first Portugall " seen by the king, was received with great honour; and in 

 company with ambassadors from Siam, returned overland by the way of Tanasarim. Albuquerque 

 sent also Ruy Nunnez de Acunna with letters Northward along the coast beyond Tanasarim and Mar- 

 taban to Pegu "in 17 ;" and "in the end of" the year, three ships and "one hundred and twenty 

 persons " under Antonio Dabreu for "Banda and Maluco." — In "January," Albuquerque returned 

 to Goa. 



" In this year" (Port, companion of De Soto 6, Churchill coll., and Presc), a Spanish colony from 

 Hayti established on Cuba by Diego Velasquez ; with the aid of a Christian who had been left sick on 

 the island many years previously. 



" Sept. 1st" (Alst., and Nicol.), a synod at Pisa. Convened by certain cardinals. Pope Julius II. 

 not having assembled a general Council, as he had sworn to do at his election. 



" 1512, March 27th " (Purchas, Churchill coll., art de verif. contin., and W. B. Rye edit. De Sot. 

 p. x), Juan Ponce de Leon, sailing from Puerto Rico for "a country in the north " reported by the 

 natives, discovered land ; and named it " Florida " from the day being Pasqua Florida or Palm Sun- 

 day. Landing " April 2d," he formally took possession, and remarked that many of the fruits (unlike 

 Tropical America) resembled those of Spain, but was repelled by the natives. He followed the coast 

 as far as " 30 8'," doubled Cape Canaveral " May 8th," " discovered the Bahamas and some other 

 islands previously unknown," and reached Puerto Rico "Sept. 21st." 



" May 3d" (Nicol.), Twentieth general ecclesiastical Council. Convened by pope Julius II. at the 

 Lateran in Rome. — The last session was held "March 16th, 1517." 



" The same year " (Blair), in London, St. Paul's school founded by John Colet. 



" In this year" (Galvan.), Antonio Dabreu after passing Java, Sumbawa, Solor, Galao, Mauluca, 

 Vitara, Rosolanguim, and the Aru Islands whence come dried birds "of great estimation because of 

 their feathers" (Paradisea), came "to other islands lying in the same parallele '' in "7 or 8° S." 

 Turning North, he arrived at Ternate, and thence proceeded to the islands of Burro and Amboino, find- 

 ing "dead men hanging in the houses, for the people there are eaters of man's flesh." On the other 

 side at a place "in 8° S.," he "laded cloues, nutmegs, and mace, in a junco or barke which Francis 

 Serrano bought here," and from Banda returned to Malacca. 



"In this year" (narrative in Stanley's edit. Barbos. 225), Francisco Serano "with three other 

 Christians " and " five Malay mariners and pilots " after sailing from the city of Malacca to Pegu, thence 

 to Pedir on Sumatra, continued "south and south-east" to Bandan where nutmegs grow, thence 

 "north-east and east-north-east through many channels as far as the islands of Malut," producing 

 cloves, and " five in all." Serano was received with great honour by the king of Maluco, and married 

 his daughter. 



Mariners of Borney spoke of a people who used the Southern stars in navigating, and dwelt so 

 far South that the climate is "very cold," with only "four hours of daylight" (compare New Zealand, 

 and Varithema's account). 



Francisco Serano (according to Galvano) was wrecked with his "junco" before the close of the 

 year on the shoals of Lusupino; but "nine or ten" of those on board escaped to " Midanao," and 

 "the kino-s of Maluco sent for them. These were the first ' Espanhoes ' that came to the Islands of 

 Cloues, which stand from the equinocliall line towardes the north in one degree, where they liued seuen 

 or eight yeeres." 



" 1513, March nth " (Nicol.), Julius II. succeeded by cardinal John de Medici, now Leo X., sixty- 

 third pope. Henry VIII. ruling England : and in Scotland " Sept. 9th," James IV. succeeded by his 

 son James V. 



"The same year" (Churchill coll.), unsuccessful attack on Aden by Alfonso de Albuquerque. 

 Who sailed thence into the Red Sea, now first visited by European ships. 



"Sept. 25th" (Churchill coll., and Markh.), from the Spanish settlement on the Gulf of Darien, 

 Basco Nunez de Balboa journeying inland to a mountain crest, discovered the Pacific Ocean. On 

 reaching its shore, he learned from the natives, that the coast trended South. 



"The same year" (Ov. gen. hist. i. and nat. hyst. 83, and Humb. cosm. v.), Oviedo (who ascended 

 Vesuvius " in 1501 ") sent to Terra Firma : — where he resided in the town of Sancta Maria dela vera 

 paz until his first return to Europe "in 1515." He ascended the volcano of Masaya in Nicaragua " in 

 July 1529." 



* Me/roxylon sp. of the Western Equatorial portion of the Malayan archipelago. Discovered by 

 Albuquerque on Sumatra— (Konig, and Spreng.). 



