CONTENTS. 



Man recovers his Speech — Magellan invades a Refractory Island — His Death 

 — Attempts to recover his Body — The Christian Island returns to Idolatry — 

 The Ships arrive at Borneo — The Sailors drink too freely of Arrack — Festi- 

 vities and Treachery — Vivid Imagination of Pigafetta — The Fleet arrives at 

 the Moluccas — The King of Tidore — A Brisk Trade in Cloves — The Spice- 

 Tariff — The Vittoria sails Homeward — Pigafetta is again imaginative — Arrival 

 at the Cape Verds — Loss of One Day — Completion of the First Voyage of Cir- 

 cumnavigation — Pigafetta' s Romance becomes Veritable History 248 



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FROM THE FIRST VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD TO THE DISCOVERY OF 

 CAPE HORN : 1519-1616. 



CHAPTER XXV. — Voyage of Jacques Cartier — Maritime Projects of Francis I. 

 of France — Gulf of St. Lawrence — A Quick Trip Home — Second Voyage — 

 Canada, Quebec, Montreal — A Captive King — Voyage of Sir Hugh Willoughby 

 and Richard Chancellor — Discovery of Nova Zembla — Disastrous Winter — 

 Fate of the Expedition — Martin Frobisher — His Voyage in Quest of a North- 

 west Passage — Greenland — Labrador — Frobisher's Straits — Exchange of Cap- 

 tives — Supposed Discovery of Gold — Second Voyage — A Cargo of Precious 

 Earth taken on Board — Meta Incognita — Third Voyage — A Mortifying Con- 

 clusion 257 



CHAPTER XXVI.— Origin of English Piracy— Sir John Hawkins— Francis 

 Drake — His First Voyage to the Spanish Main — Commission granted by 

 Queen Elizabeth — Expedition against the Spanish Possessions — Exploits at 

 Mogador and Santiago — Crossing the Line — Arrival in Patagonia — Trial and 

 Execution of Doughty — Passage through Magellan's Strait — Adventures of 

 William Pitcher and Seven Men — Cape Horn — Arrival at Valparaiso — Rifling 

 of a Catholic Church 267 



CHAPTER XXVII.— Drake's Exploit with a Sleeping Spaniard— His Achieve- 

 ments at Callao — Battle with a Treasure-Ship — Drake gives a Receipt for her 

 Cargo — Indites a Touching Epistle — His Plans for Returning Home — Fresh 

 Captures — Performances at Guatulco and Acapulco — Drake dismisses his 

 Pilot — Exceeding Cold Weather — Drake regarded as a God by the Califor- 

 nians — Sails for the Moluccas — Visits Ternate and Celebes — The Pelican upon 

 a Reef — The Return Voyage — Protest of the Spanish Ambassador — He styles 

 Drake the Master-Thief of the Unknown World — Queen Elizabeth on board 

 the Pelican — Drake's Use nf his Fortune — His Death— The Voyage of John 

 Davis to the Northwest 279 



CHAPTER XXVIIL— Policy of Queen Elizabeth— Thomas Cavendish— His 

 First Voyage — Exploits upon the African and Brazilian Coasts — Port Desire 

 — Port Famine — Battles with the Araucanians — Capture of Paita — Robbery 

 of a Church— Repeated Acts of Brigandage— Capture of the Santa Anna— The 

 Return Voyage— Cavendish's Account of the Expedition — The Spanish Armada 

 —Preparations in England— The Conflict— Total Rout of the Invincibles— 

 Procession in Commemoration of the Event ... 288 



