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detained, — the Portuguese having discovered that the Vittoria 

 was one of Magellan's fleet. She was compelled to abandon 

 the men as prisoners, and sailed away, — her whole equipment 

 now numbering eighteen hands, all of them, except Pigafetta, 

 more or less disabled. The latter, to discover if his journal 

 had been regularly kept, had inquired at the islands what day 

 it was, and was told it was Thursday. This amazed him, as his 

 reckoning made it Wednesday. He was soon convinced there 

 was no mistake in his account; as, having sailed to the westward 

 and followed the course of the sun, it was evident that, in cir- 

 cumnavigating the globe, he had seen it rise once less than 

 those who had remained at home, and thus, apparently, had lost 

 a day. 



On Saturday, the 6th of September, the Vittoria entered the 

 Bay of San Lucar, having been absent three years and twenty- 

 seven days, and having sailed upwards of fourteen thousand six 

 hundred leagues. On the 8th, having ascended the Guadal- 

 quivir, she anchored off the mole of Seville and discharged all 

 her artillery. On the 9th, the whole crew repaired, in their 

 shirts and barefooted, and carrying tapers in their hands, to 

 the Church of Our Lady of Victory, as in hours of danger they 

 had often vowed to do. The captain of the Vittoria, Juan Se- 

 bastian Cano, was knighted by Charles V., who gave him for 

 his coat of arms the terrestial globe, with a motto commemo- 

 rating the voyage. Pigafetta presented to Charles V. of Spain, 

 to King John of Portugal, to the Queen Regent of France, and 

 to Philippe, Grand Master of Rhodes, journals and narratives 

 of the expedition. From the latter, the most complete, we 

 have extracted the foregoing account, — taking care, however, 

 to correct its errors, and to point out the numerous instances in 

 which its author was indebted to his imagination for his facts. 



