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and that near a Tawny ; they never fly, but when the 
’ Wind blows to help them ; the Moors fanfy they come 
down from Paradife, and therefore call them the Birds of 
God. As for all the Moluccas in general, their Produds 
are Cioves, Ginger, Rice, Sagu-bread, Goats, Sheep, 
Hens, Popinjays, white and red Figs, Almonds, Pome- 
granates, Oranges, and Lemons, and a fort of Honey 
which is made by Flies lefs than Ants ; befides Sugar- 
canes, Oil of Cocoas, Melons, Gourds, and a Fruit which 
, they call Camulical, which is extremely cold. The Na- 
tives of thefe Hands were all Heathens , the Moors having 
not had Footing there above FiftyYears before the Spaniards 
came. The Ille Tiridore is in about 27 Minutes North 
Latitude, and 170° Longitude, from their Firfc Meridian* 
and about 9 0 30' from the Archipelago, in which are the 
Ladrones , and run to the Quarters of South-weft and 
N. N. E. T 'ernate is in Four Minutes of South Latitude ; 
Mutir is directly under the Equinodial ; Machian is in 
Fifteen Minutes of South Latitude ; and Bacchian in One 
Minute •, and this He is the biggeft of all the Moluccas. 
When they departed from hence, they had the Kings of 
feverai Hands attending them in their Canoes. They 
were conducted by them to the He Mare , and there this 
Royal Company took their Leaves of them, not without 
great Sorrow. In this He they left a leaking Ship behind 
them, giving Orders, if it could be repaired, for its Re- 
turn into Spain. 
22. They dire&ed their Courfe to the South- weft from 
Mare , being now more in Number than Forty-fix Spa- 
niards , and Thirteen Indians. They palled the Hes of 
Chacouan , Lagoma , Sico, Gioghi , Caphi , Sulacho , Luma- 
iola , Tenetum , 1 Burn, Ambon , Budia , Celaruri , Benaia , 
Ambalao , Bandon , Zorobua , Zolot , Moceuamor , Galian , and 
Mallua , befides many others poflefted by Moors , Heathens , 
and Canibals . They ftaid at Mallua Fifteen Days, repair- 
ing their Ships. It lies in 8° of South Latitude, and 169° 
40' Long, according to their Reckoning. There grows a 
vaft deal of Pepper there, both long and round ; the 
Leaves of the Tree like Mulberry-leaves, and climbing 
like Ivy. The People are perfeft Canibals ; the Men 
wear their Hair and Beards put up in Canes ; and, for 
Weapons, ufe only Bows and Arrows. January the 25th, 
1552. leaving Mallua , they arrived at Tuna, which is Five 
Leagues diftant between the South and South-weft ; here 
they found Ginger, the Wood of white Sanders, divers 
Fruits and Beafts, Gold, and plenty of all forts of Pro- 
vifions : The People of the Moluccas , Java, and Lozen, 
fetch their Sanders from this Hand. It lies in io° South 
Latitude, and 174 0 of Longitude. The Inhabitants are 
Idolaters, and have among them, which is alfo common to 
ail the Hes of the Archipelago , the Diftemper we call the 
Venereal Difeafe. Sailing a long Courfe from hence, be- 
tween the Weft and North- weft, they came to the He of 
Bude , which yields great Store of Cinnamon. In this 
Traft of Sea there is a long String of Hands lying in Order, 
behind one another, as far as the Greater Java , and the 
Cape of Mallaca . About half a League from this Greater 
Java , lies Java the Lefs , which is full as big as the He of 
Madeira . February the 1 ith, failing from Timor, they 
got into the great Sea Lantchidol , and fteered away be- 
tween the Weft and South- weft, leaving the North Coaft 
on their Right Hand, taking care not to fail too near the 
Shore, left the Portuguefe , who were feated at Malacca , 
ftiould chance to difcover them •, and' on this Account, they 
directed their Courfe without the He of Sumatra. And, 
that they might pale the Cape of Good-Hope more fecurely, 
they failed about 42° toward the South Pole, waiting in 
thofe Parts Seven Weeks for the Wind. The Cape of 
Good-Hope they obferved to be in 34 0 if 0 f South Lati- 
tude, and 1 600 Leagues from the Cape of Malacca. 
23. But, having paft all Dangers of the Cape, being 
fmartly pinched with Hunger and Sicknefs, fome of them 
were for putting in at Mozambique for a little Refrefhment 5 
but the major Part of the Company concluding, that the 
Portuguefe, who were there, would prove but untoward 
Phyficians for their Diftempers, they refolved to fail home- 
wards : This they did in a Courfe towards the South-weft, 
for the Space of Two Months, without touching any- 
where ; in which time they loft Twenty-one Men of their 
Numb. 2. 
Company, the Remainder being upon the Point of ftarving. 
They came in good time, under this Neceffity, to St. 
James , which is one of the Cape de Verde Hands, and 
there they were forced to throw themfelves upon the 
Mercy of the Portuguefe ; fo that, venturing afliore, they 
opened their miferable Cafe to the Portuguefe , who were fo 
generous as to relieve them the firft, and fo barbarous as 
to detain them Prifoners the next time they came for Food. 
Thofe in the Ship, finding their Companions (Thirteen in 
Number) ftopt by the Portuguefe , and having no' mind to 
bear them Company in Prifon, made all the Plafte they 
poffibly could away ; and, the Wind filling their Sails, they 
came September 7. into the Haven of St. Lucar , near 
Seville. 
24. The Perfon who commanded this Veflel, which had 
the good Fortune to return, was one John Sebafiian Cano , 
a Native of the Town of Guetaria , in Bifcay , a Man of 
great Spirit, and equal Fortune, whofe Succefs in this 
refpedt was very nobly rewarded by the Emperor Charles 
the Vth, who, to perpetuate the Memory of fo glorious 
an Exploit, gave him for his Arms the Terreftrial Globe, 
with this Motto, Primus me circumdedijli ; that is, Thou 
firft furroundedfi me. Some Critics have remarked, that, 
inftead of circumdedijli, it fhould have been circumivifti , or 
circumnavigafii ; but this was a kind of Exacfnels un- 
worthy of fo great an Emperor. The new-difcovered 
Streights were for awhile called the Str eights of ViStona , 
from the Ship that returned ; but they foon loft that Name 
to afiume another, which feemed much better to become 
them, I mean that of their Difcoverer Magellan ; which 
they are always like to bear, and thereby perpetuate the 
Memory of that worthy Man, who, in point of Courage 
and Condudt, {hewed himfelf every way equal to the great 
Talk he undertook, and who, though he did not live to 
come home in the Victoria, ought to be confidered as the 
foie Author of the Difcoveries made in this Expedition, 
fince the Courfe failed after his Death had nothing in it 
new, but was what the Portuguefe had often done before. 
25. By this remarkable Expedition, the Skill and Pe- 
netration of the great Columbus , who firft formed an Idea 
of the Poflibility of performing it, received new Luftre, 
and the World in general new Light. It was now no 
longer a Queftion to be difputed by Arguments, whether 
the World might be circum-navigated ; this Voyage put it, 
as aFadt, out of Difpute. One of Magellan* s Companions 
therefore, Antonio Pigafetla , a Native of Vicenza , in Italy, 
to whom we ftand indebted for the belt Account extant of 
the whole Voyage, had Reafon to conclude his 'Relation 
thus : “ Thefe were Mariners, who furely merited an 
“ eternal Memory, more juftly than the Argonauts of old, 
“ who failed with Jafon , in Search of the Golden Fleece, 
“ into the Region of Colchis, and entered the River Phafis , 
ts from the Sea of Pontus. The Ship too undoubtedly 
<e deferved far better to be placed among the Stars, than 
“ their Ship Argo, which, from Greece , difcovered that 
“ great Sea : For this our wonderful Ship, taking her 
“ Departure from the Streights of Gibraltar , and failing 
“ Southwards through the great Ocean towards the An- 
“ tardlic Pole, and then turning Weft, followed that Courfe 
“ fo long, that, pafling round, fhe came into the Eaft^ 
“ and thence again into the Weft, not by failing back, 
“ but proceeding conftantly forward; fo compafling about 
“ the Globe of the World, until fhe marveloufly regained 
“ her native Country Spain, and the Port from which fhe 
“ departed, Seville P 
26. This remarkable Voyage took up Three Years and 
Thirty-feven Days ; for they departed Augufi 10. 1519. 
and returned September 6 . 1522. One thing however was 
difcovered in it by Experience, which Reafon has taught 
to explain, though by Reafon it could hardly have been 
found out ; for, on their Arrival at the Moluccas, they 
found themfelves a Day miftaken in their Reckoning, 
which was not owing to any Negligence in them, but to 
the Courfe they failed ; for it is now a Truth, juftified by 
Pra6ri.ce, as well as agreeable to the Principles of Geogra- 
phy and Navigation, that fuch as fail Eaft, till they come 
back to the Place they left, have feen the Sun rife, pafs the 
Meridian, and fet, once more than their Countrymen they 
left behind them; and confequently gain a Day ; and that, 
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