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A M E %^I C A. Chap.lIL 



In the ititcrim, while thefe fcarce confiderable Voyages turn'd to fo fmall 

 account, Ferdinand JMagaglianus (for fo Peter Martyr calls him, and not Magella- 

 nus, which herein deferves to be credited, becaufe they were intimately ac- 

 quainted, and aceat friend fhip between them,) undertook to Sail round about 

 the World • the occafion of which we will here relate at large : 



This Magaglianm, or Magellanus, a Gentleman of Portugal, having perform'd 

 things of great importance for his King, in Africa, although with no lefs trou- 

 ble than Charge, defir'd an addition of half a Ducket a Moneth added to his 

 Annual Penfion 5 an inconfiderable Sum to make a Requeft for, yet though fo 

 little, Was as niggardly deny 'd : Whereupon, highly incenfed, he ftudy'd no 

 little revenge 5 to which effect , foon after an opportunity was prefented, by 

 means of Francifcus Serranus , who writ from Ternata to him, that he fliould 

 fpeedily come thither, which he foon after did upon this account : 



Pope Alexander the Sixth, having fixt Terminaries between the Kings of Ca- 

 ftile and Portugal, both bufie at that time in difcovering new Countreys , Or* 

 dcr'd, That Caftile ftiould poiTefs all the Coafts lying to the Weft of the chief 

 Meridian, and Portugal to the Eaft : By vertue of this partition, the rich Spicy 

 Molucca Iflands fell abfolutely to the Portuguese : Now Magellanus perfwaded 

 Charles the Fifth, that they might be Sail'd to with a Wefterly Courfe,and there- 

 fore belonged to Caftile • Which advice, Charles the Fifth confidering, and ap- 

 proving, Rigg'd out five Ships, with which Magellanus fet Sail from Sevil, the 

 tenth of Auguft, Anno 1519. five Moneths he ply 'd up and down the Coaft in- 

 habited by the Patagones , where he found none but one fingle Perfon , or ra- 

 ther a Monfter, a Giant ten Foot high, who coming Aboard his Ship, devour'd 

 a great Hamper full of Biskets, and at one Draught drunk up nine Pottels of 

 Water. He alfoiaw feveral Trees which had been Hew'n with Axes, and Crof- 

 ks made on the tops of them. Whilft he lay in that Harbor, which was call'd 

 St. Julian, he Cafhier'd his Vice-Admiral, John Carthagena, with his Father Con- 

 feflbr, and fparing their lives, fet them afhore , and there left them to feek 

 their Fortunes, though they had Confpir'd to Murther him. 



Magellanus from thence Sailing afterwards Southerly along Jmerica, to forty- 

 two Degrees Southern Latitude, was engaged with the eddyings of a very 

 ftrong Current, which driving one of the Ships into a Bay, fplit againft a 

 . blind Rock, but the Men being fav'd in their Boat, were driven farther and 

 farther into a- Channel , between high and Snowy Mountains ; whereupon he 

 immediately judg'd (as the famous Negromancer Roderick Takrus had often 

 told him) that there was the Paflage, through which the Northern Ocean 

 flow'd into the Southern 5 wherefore he refolutely adventur'd to Sail into 

 thofe Sraights, which in fome places narrow, and in others broad, is an hun- 

 dred and twenty Leagues long, and full of fmall Ifles and dangerous Rocks. 

 Whilft he ftill Sail'd on, the Ship call'd Antonio, Tacking about, return'd to 

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But Magellanus enter'd the great South-Sea with three Sail, on the 25. of Oclo* 

 her, where the Sea-men fuffer'd extremely by exceflive Heat, Drought, and Fa- 

 mine, three Moneths and twenty Days, without fight of Land : And now, 

 their Shooes, and the Leather which covered their Shields,. began alfo to grow 

 fcarce (which before had been counted a Dainty ) when they difcover'd two 

 Iflands lying two hundred Leagues diftanceone from another, yet both Defo- 

 late and Barren , wherefore they were call'd the Unfortunate Ifles : After that, 

 they came amongft a great number* of Iflands, whofe Inhabitants were much 



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