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Magelhaens was killed at the island of Matan, on the 26th of April, 
1521; and Duarte, the second in command, who succeeded him, im¬ 
prudently accepting an invitation from the chief of Febri to a feast, 
was, with twenty companions, massacred. Of all the Spaniards pre¬ 
sent, only one escaped. After these and various other misfortunes, 
only one vessel of the squadron, the Victoria, returned to Spain. Don 
Juan Sebastian del Cano, her commander, was complimented by his 
sovereign by a grant for his arms of a globe, with the proud inscrip¬ 
tion, commemorative of his being the first circumnavigator, 
“ PRIMUS ME CIRcbMCEDIT.” 
Two years afterwards, a second expedition was fitted out, under 
the command of Loaisa, who died after they had passed through the 
Straits of Magelhaens, when they had been a year on their voyage. 
The command then fell upon Sebastian, who died in four days after 
his predecessor. Salayar succeeded to the command, and reached 
the Ladrone Islands, but shortly after leaving there he died also. 
They came in sight of Mindanao, but contrary winds obliged them 
to go to the Moluccas. When arrived at the Portuguese settlements, 
contentions and jealousies arose, and finally all the expedition was 
dispersed, and the fate of all but one of the vessels has become doubt¬ 
ful. None but the small tender returned, which, after encountering 
great difficulties, reached New Spain. 
The third expedition was fitted out by Cortes, then viceroy of 
Mexico, and the command of it given to Sarvedra. This sailed from 
the port of Silguattanjo, on the 31st of October, 1528, and stopped at 
the Ladrone Islands, of which it took possession for the crown of 
Spain. It afterwards went to Mindanao, and then pursued its voyage 
to Timor, where part of the expedition of Loaisa was found remaining. 
From Timor they made two attempts to return to New Spain, both 
of which failed. The climate soon brought on disease, which carried 
off a great number, and among them Sarvedra. Thus the whole 
expedition was broken up, and the survivors found their way to the 
Portuguese settlements. 
The fourth expedition was sent from New Spain, when under the 
government of Don Antonio de Mendoza, for the purpose of establishing 
a trade with the new islands, and it received orders not to visit the 
Moluccas. This expedition sailed in 1542, under the command of 
Villalobos. It reached the Philippine Islands without accident, and 
Villalobos gave them that name after Philip II., then prince of Asturias. 
Notwithstanding his positive instructions to the contrary, he was 
obliged to visit the Moluccas, and met the same treatment from the 
