Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1869-07-23

we NoyBB'. IDey sailed Tor tne mouth u
the Rio d, Ia Plata, and, falling Into th
error which had misled S 'bistia Cabot
icS years earlier, VI gellan explored tn,
| river thr ugl a whole winter, hoping {
might prove q channel to the ,mh Sea
Di,ap Jontc1 in this, he sailed dUaH IN,
bleak coast Of Patagonia.
SEARCHING every opening in the shore AM
| nrytug into every arm OF the sea whict
stretched inland, to.misI n chance OF Il ID
| ing the desired strait, the little tX Jedi TO-
crrW slowly on. Troups OF gig IN ic alive,
| GRO Fdsd the shores in wonder Magellan
after the custom Of Spanish explorers
| treacherOu ,ly decoyed sumo of these In.
diaBs on board his ships ard carried them
away under tho Dyes Of their wives and
/ kinsiolk, the ssyagcs 70 lrng Justify all thu
time for their god SteiebOs to rescne them
| Stetebo' Is alSo the god OF Cahbin, aud
! ProsperO's enchanted island perhaps iy
near the shores Of the New Indies." Very
likely Shakespeare hid read Pglfett's
account of Magsllan's v1yage before he
wrote The Tempes :"
Pigafetu alsJ tolls us that the sailors
were delighted with vegetable "whcih
looked liked turnip and tasted Ike a
chestnu ;" and which they led "6ltaies. .
IL is supposed this rs the q ST acu1Aint
ance OF Elrnpclus with the potato NJ ire
than century later, POTATOES were rare
eating IN gland, although On, Of Sir w /.
ter Rdeig IS unsuccessful col les brought
them buck from V rginia.
| IL was late Ia the + al when the exillrers
| nrared the straits nov calsd Mtg-ilsu'<
Already they had Lost one ship by st,r,ns.
ami h, re another, app lied by The growing
| horrors ~ the v0yog-, des rted An returned
n me. The sailors ntered with dread the
waters of the narr)w, winling chan1rl.
Slowly and caution ,ly they felt their wav.
Uncertain whittier u would lead them. Over
,heir heads rose the ley peaks OF Terra dol
rueg ., ghttering aud pit te B ,fure them
lay the black AMI threatening waters. The
sails w-re sheetei with ice, aud the ropes
of the rigging froz'n stiff The men began
70 murmur. ',he SJanish sailors hated the
Portuguese captain, and the mu,tering
| grow loud enough TO reach his ears. LIMP
ing 90 deck into the mids- Of the macon.
tents, he cried f-rcelj IL ok at me.
sailors Am MT alsJ cold and hungry,
| yet d. you Nee me complain ? Tie Fl st
man who daros so much as to speak of his
| snlcringS, | will hang at the yard arm -
They Understood we'll that the lame captain
meant what he said. They had sesn him
| qnell one mutiny 10 short oder, aud hang
| the leading con piratUrs in ght OF his entire
command; and now his brief address
sllrDced, it it did MT convince, them. His
triumph came when he emerged from the
| ir0wning, stormy straits, which he nam I'd
| twas it in s4tirt u the " S rats of the
+ even Thousand Virgins" into the un-
n I'll waters Of the ocean which Balboa
had seen from the SUBMITS o DIiien. M
gellin was the Il st who hal ever passed
tho westerb gateway to In liza, which n, W
n Lei 4
placid IN contrast til the Atlantic that
he sailed upon il for weeks without meeting
an adverse hret n, he gave the nlme of the
Pdrlf;. Before thai tim, and, IN Iced,
long aiier, IL was called the " Sinth S "a. u
Magellan's voyage made the third great
step in Wes'rrn ,cJvery. The waters OF
| The Pac fl; had been tered from
the Atlanti', NJ d for the iirst time 10 lis
| tory Asia had been reached by sailing west
| " r.. AMI now for time the tide a. al
! venture stepped content on the 81 ores oi
the ~ W Ladies'" Peru, the modern
Ophir, 20 which the sav,g-s hal directed
| Jnr tgrr Uyss ..f p-il,,, f~,,, ,ha sunen,it,
of Dtritn, hal vi, He'd to the b,ld avaricC
Of 2 Hirr., Tue lu,ter of tho diamonds o.
G SHAY paled before the abundant gold oil
Peru aud NJ Xicn; and the search f.
Prtster John in his "ctstle built after the
pattern If that which the Apostle Ttoma'
built for the Iuli,n King & N if'rus
TN led in the shining palaces IT tn, lnca'
aud the gorgeous halls o. the Moitez I'm As
And Il W every ambitions sdv, n:urel
brrleI with tbs desire to rep AT the con
q ness of PizlrTo and Of ntes. I "a new
land Of Florida. upln whose shores Ponc,
Il Leon had s;uull ,d in his search afte
the fIuntAin whose waters should res or
. rs 20 - youth, " & believed to he aubjh
rich h-ld for pluuder. After de Leoh'
death PauillO de Narvaez aspired to be-
como ruler there. His ships were cas-
ashore on tho cost of FIoridL near Pensa
cola Bay, and his crew-a group of hungr!
fearful men, faced by the cruel sea, hem
med in by savdges, without shelter, alnos
without fbod-- utdld the labors of H-rcu
les. Aim st entirely destitute OF tools, the.
made five Doats f,on logs hewn out Of tn,
forest, with cUrdage wuv5n from the hsi
cut from tho csrcas,es of the horses thsl
consumed for food, aud sail .pieced tog ,the
from the linen stripped from their backs
Then they embarked upon the Gulf G
Mexico. The boat Of Narva,z persisted
and only one OF their little barkS escape
tho waves. THIS, common led by CibeA d
Nacn, bm ami ready man, wrns past III
mouth Of the Mississippi, aud landed so.na
where on the coast OF Louisiana or Texas
With his fow remaining men d. Vdct begd
his overland journey. The history of thei
march is full Of hair. breadth escapes au'
perlous adventures, only limited at in wha
accounts we can obtain.
Eight years sfter his boat was dlshe
, upnu tho coast of tho Calf of NJ xic'
, Clbeca do Vaca, with three companion
appeared on the shor, Of the PAciic, a
> tho colony Of Cnliacacau, the most norhrr
Spanish settlement in Mexico. G IA
/, savage 10 king, long bearded, and h4rdl
. reco1 ni1ab,e 10y their c0unirymt n, they ha
. a wonderful tale TO tel. q, passage q 70 1
tangled Nideruesses and Indian villages
; over muuatain aud through gorges; OF {
}. ing taken pris ,ner by hostil. sayagos, wh,l
}, D. Vaca awed bN his superior knOwl51g
o I'LL his cap ors made himI t leir medici1
d man,n and veneratgd him as "a superuatur,
u being; of his being coast intly drawn 70
= ward by IumOrs Of atet to the wes', While
,. seem, always To reeede as they went OF
4 above all, Of traditions among the natives
d of a rich country to tina northwest whic
p would rival Peru and Mexico in riches, an
II which boosted O city more glorious than u
8 will lest dreams had pictured of tho capita
= Of Prester John. Such were the lndia
= rnmors ofthe land of California three ce
turcs ago.
n Eiger 10 fad this spl 'ndid empire and
a ,rgeo us capital, scnte, of explorers star
7. cd il search of 1t. Many ship bearing Il
!. Spanish Dag at her mast head sailed fro
d the settlements in Mexico up the Paci
.. Ocean, looking vainly for its golden wa
A. and m ,rhlr palaces. Prrehance on the 81
n. where San Francisco, "Qu,en Of tho We
q terra wavr," strotcehs ous nor arms TO t
Ms Indies, tawny Spanish acv sniurers eager
m questioned the bewildeTci natives on I
of beach e2ncerniIg this tabled Ciiy OF
West.
10 A detailed account of Western eVplo
o. tons in search of tho ladies would
in many vo!u mes. 1t would iuc udc d. Sot
ch long, dreary, tragic IA 1rch to tho hl-siss
~ pi, Henry Iudson's voyages from the d
ho wnen he entered his own jyoly liver 10
IA day when he perishol on the froz N wat
,st OF Hudsol's Bay, the whole history Of A
er tic discovery, the ardu0us lahors OF
Il. S ale, MS,quetto, Joliet, and llennepiu
he the Mhsippi Valley, IL would confAin
ed romantic wauderings OF Jonathan Cary
. ir -. o., IA afeaov4 as ~ California and