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preponderated. The officers and crews of both ships were 

 liealthy, 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 a name which, to this day, is very common 

 both in Portugal and Brazil. 



