8 ■ The V O Y 
lie enjoyed himfelf very comfortably on Ship-board, till he 
happened to peep into a great Looking-glafs, that was given 
him amongfl other Trifles : This put him into a Fright, 
which he could not eafily recover .; fo that, flatting back with 
Violence, he tumbled a Couple of the Men, that flood by 
him, to the Ground. However, this Giant fared fo well 
amongfl them, (notwithflanding the Fright by the Looking- 
glafs,) that quickly after they had the Company of more ; 
particularly one came, and made himfelf mighty familiar, 
carried it pleafantly, and with fo much good Humour 
amongfl them, that our Europeans were alfo pleafed with 
his Company. He gave them a Sight of one of thofe 
Bealls whofe Skins they wear ; but we have, in this Ac- 
count, nothing of any particular Defcription of it added, 
to juflify or difprove the former Surmifes about it. 
6. The General was defirous of making fome of thefe 
gigantic People Prifoners ; and, * in order to it, his Crew 
took the following Method : Their filled their Hands with 
Toys, and little Things that pleafed them, and, in the 
mean time, put Iron Shackles upon their Legs* which they 
thought were very fine Play-things, as well as the reft, 
and were pleafed with the jingling Sound of them, till they 
found how they were hampered and betrayed : But then 
they fell a bellowing like Bulls, and implored the Help of 
Setehos in that Extremity ; they cried aloud for his Aflift- 
ance, but he did not come to deliver them ; and what 
Power it is they give that Name to, they beft know. To 
defire his Help in Mifery* implied fome Notions conceived 
of his Goodnefs and Compaflion ; and ’tis not to be ima- 
gined, that they would thus crave Relief of an evil Spirit 
that ufed to vex and afflidt them. It muff be owned, that 
they report very flrange Things of horrid Forms and Ap- 
pearances frequently feen amongfl thefe People ; of 
horned Demons with long Shag Hair, throwing out Fire 
both before and behind ; but thefe feem to be Dreams or 
F’ables. This Account goes further as to the Inhabitants, 
and reports, that moil of thefe People wear the fame Sort 
of Apparel that the ftrfl appeared in, that is, the Skins of 
the fore-mentioned Beafl : They go with their Hair fhort ; 
yet that there is, they tie up with a Cotton Lace. They 
have no fixed Habitations, but certain moveable Cottages, 
which they carry from one Place to another, as their 
Fancy leads them ; and the very fame Materials which they 
ufe for the Defence of their Bodies, they ufe alfo for the 
Defence and Covering of thefe Cottages : What Flefh they 
eat, they bellow no Ceremony of drefling upon ; but devour 
it frefh and raw as it comes to their Hands : Befides which, 
they have a certain fweet Root amongfl them, called Capar , 
which is a confiderable Part of their Foot. They add alfo, 
that they are extremely jealous of their Women ; but they 
don’t tell us they faw any of them. 
7. Amongfl them the Practice of Phyfic is reduced 
Into a very narrow Compafs, and takes in no more than 
Vomiting and Phlebotomy : Thefe Two Evacuations mull 
anfwer all Varieties of Cafes and Purpofes ; and, where 
this won’t do, the Difeafe is incurable in that Land. Their 
way of Bleeding is to give a good Chop with fome Edge- 
Tool or other in the Part that is affedted, be it Leg, or 
Arm, or Face. But though ’tis odd to ufe a Chopping- 
knife inflead of a Lancet, for letting Blood, yet it is more 
fo, to thrufl an Arrow, a Foot and an half down the 
Throat, to procure a Vomit. No doubt but this will 
prick the Fibres, and fet a Man a reaching to fome Purpofe. 
Thefe Folks are very ftrong : When they made the Attempt 
of taking fome of them Prifoners, one alone very near 
tired the utmofl Force of Nine of their Men that were 
employed to mailer him *, and though they had him down, 
and bound his Hands tightly, yet he freed himfelf from 
his Bonds, and got loofe, in fpite of all their Endeavours 
to hold him. And, proportionable to their Strength, is 
that alfo of their Appetite : One of them eat up a whole 
.Bafket of Ship-Bifcuit at a Meal, and drank a Bowl (they 
don’t fay how large) of Water at a Draught ; but any 
thing of this kind is not fo very flrange, confidering the 
large Carcafes they have to maintain. One thing of them 
(which is fomething lingular) is not to be omitted before we 
leave them ; and that is, that, by reafon of the vehement 
Cold, they trufs themfelves up fo very clofe and tight, 
that the Genitals in the Men are' not to be difcovered. 
AGES of Book I. 
lying hid intirely within their Bodies. The Admiral gave 
thefe People the Name of Patagons , and took notice of 
thefe few common Words : They call Bread, Capar ; Water, 
Oli ; Black, Amel ; Red, Cheiche ; Red Cloth, Cherecai. 
Setehos , and Cheleule , are the Names of Two Beings they 
pay a religious Relpedl to ; of which the former is the 
fupreme, the latter an inferior one : But whether they are 
proper Names, or only their Terms for a higher and fub- 
ordinate Power in general, is not certain. 
8. The Port they flay’d inthele FiveMonths was called 
Port St. Julian ; of which, as of the whole adjoining 
Country, they took folemn Poffeffion, and left a Crofs 
erebled in Token of it; becaufe it was the Beginning of 
October by that time they got up to the Cape de Verdlft ands ; 
and they were detained fo long by the Calms, that they 
made it December , before they crofted the Line. But 
the main Reafon of their flaying fo long here, was a Con- 
fpiracy that broke out among their Crew, not Only 
fome of the common Men, but fome of the Captains alfo, 
and particularly Captain Mendoza , upon whom the General 
chiefly depended. The General abted in this Affair with ’ 
great Spirit and Courage ; for, having fubdued the Con- 
fpirators, he brought them to a Trial for plotting agairifl 
his Life, hanged Lewis de Mendoza , and fome few. Who 
were mofl guilty ; and left Captain Juan de Carthegena y 
and fome others, who were not quite fo deep, amongfl 
the Patagons. The Weather growing fine, and the Crew 
once more brought into Subjection, Magellan thought it 
high time to purfue his Courfe ; which accordingly he did, 
till he arrived in 5 1 Degrees 40 Minutes South Latitude. 
Here they found a convenient Port, and met with good 
Proviflons of Fuel, Fifh, and frelh Water ; they lingered 
away at this Place Two Months more, and then came to 
52 Degrees South Latitude, where they difcovered the 
Entrance into the Streights. They found them about no 
Leagues in Length, and as for the Breadth very uncertain, 
in fome Places very wide, in others not more than half a 
League over ; the Land on both Sides high and uneven, 
and the Mountains covered with Snow. When they came 
to the End of it, they found an open Paffage into the great 
Ocean. Magellan was furprifed at the Sight, with a Joy that 
exceeded all common Bounds; for this was the happy thing 
he looked for, and now he was able to demonftrate his 
failing round by the Weft. The Point of Land from whence 
he firftfaw this deftreable Profpebfthe called, in Memory of 
it. Cape Defiderato ; but it feems it was not fo defirable to> 
all the reft of the Company ; for here one of the Ships 
flole away, and failed homeward by herfelf. They 
entered the Pacific Sea , for fo they called it, November the 
28th, A. D. 1 520. and in this wide Ocean they failed Three 
Months and Twenty Days, without Sight of Land. The 
Miferies they endured for want of Provifion, a good Part 
of this Time, were fuch as are feldom heard of ; the frefh 
Water they had on board flunk, and was very loathfome ; 
all their Bread was gone, and nothing left to eat but Pieces 
of Skins, and Bits of Leather. Nature will make any 
Shift, though ever fo hard, to bear herfelf out in a Diftrefs, 
when ’ tis poflible to be done ; and the poor Seamen here, 
rather than ftarve, fell very greedily to work upon thofe 
dry tough Pieces of Leather that were about the Ropes of 
the Ships. But it being impoflible to eat them, till they 
were fome way foftened, and fitted for chewing, they laid 
them afteep in fait Water for fome Days, and then made 
the beft of them, as long as they failed. But then again, 
what with this impure fort of Feeding, which was but 
fcanty too, and the daily Impoverifhment of their Spirits 
wanting better Recruits, their Number fhortened apace : 
Some died outright, others fell into pining Sicknefs, others 
had their Gums grew quite over their Teeth on every Side ; 
by which means being totally unable to manage thofe tough 
Solids they were forced to feed upon, they were paft all 
Help, and fo miferably flarved to Death. Their only Com- 
fort, under all thefe direful Circumftances, was aConftancy of 
fair and good Weather. The Winds blew them fmoothly 
and gently along, and, while they were thus expofed, the 
Sea was calm and quiet too, and by this got the celebrated 
Name of Pacific. In all this Time they faw nothing but 
Two uninhabited Iflands, that gave no Profpedt of any 
Relief. The Needle of their Compafs varied fometimes ; 
and* 
