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graphers having consecrated, by silence, this manifest act of 

 injustice. 



Altering their course to the northward, they soon recognised 

 the mouth of Magellan's Strait, — which rendered their discovery 

 complete. They returned thanks to God for their success, and 



CAPE HORN. 



passed the wine cup three times round the company. Schout.cn 

 then made for the island of Juan Fernandez, where he hoped to 

 give rest and refreshment to his sickly and wearied crew. The 

 currents and the winds would not permit him to land ; and he was 

 compelled to start across the Pacific in a crazy ship and with a 

 disabled company. Like Magellan, who traversed this ocean 

 without seeing any of the important islands which, just below 

 the line, extend from America to Asia, forming, as it were, a 

 girdle from shore to shore, Schouten discovered but a few in- 

 significant rocks and reefs, passing between and at a distance 

 from the great archipelagoes which dot the Pacific in this latr 



