280 MANILLA. 



Magelhaens was killed at the island of Matan, on the 2Gth 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 CIRCUMCEDIT." 



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 



