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FALKLAND ISLANDS. 



questions which have arisen betwen the United 

 States of America and the Argentine republic* 

 touching the Falkland Islands, Cape Horn, 

 Tierra del Fuego, and the adjacent islands in 

 the Atlantic ocean, to ascertain from historical 

 facts how these principles will apply. 



The undersigned does not pretend to say that 

 Ferdinand Magellan, a subject of the King of 

 Portugal, in the service of Charles V., Emperor 

 of Germany and King of Spain, commenced the 

 first voyage of circumnavigation on the 20th of 

 September, 1519, about twenty-seven years 

 after the discovery of America by Columbus. 

 Unfortunately he did not live to complete it — 

 having been killed at the Ladrones, in 1521. 

 In October, 1520, he entered the straits which 

 divide Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. He 

 was unquestionably the first discoverer of the 

 northern coast of the latter region. More for- 

 tunate than Columbus, he not only left an en- 

 during name to the strait which he traversed, 

 but he has fixed it eternally in the celestial 

 regions of the southern hemisphere. 



In 1527 Groca de Loaisa, a knight of Malta, 

 in the service of Spain, undertook, with a 



