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| porturuese slain wns the celebrated Loui On co.
! only aon Of tho vicsroy. and his brsyest and
most honored captain. His leg was shot on BY
n cannon ball and he went down with his, ship.
lighting as long as there was deck 10 stand
on. But tho Egyptians paid dear for their
victory. The viceroy met them . little later
| OF Diu. The Egyptian feet numbered over
one hundred sail, Its lighting force included
700 Mamelukes. and many Christian soldiers.
Venetian and sclav. all OF whom were claA In
chain armor The Portuguese feet attached.
the Holy Ghost leading the van. and Myr
Hossyn's armada was annihilated In short
order. The slaughter Was greater even than
that at Cananor. Between 5000 and 1000 men
were killed. OF the $40 MAmeiukes but, az
survived This battle. fought on Feb. 2. 1903.
fixed tho Portuguese power In India.
But It Il not necessary TO follow those events
further. What 10 recorded will show the ma
ture OF the school In which the early training
81 Magellan was received. He was wounded
both at Cananor and At Diu. He served under
Albuauerque after Almetda Was recalled; was
present At the taking OF Malacca In 1911. and
rem ansIl In India under the two commanders
for seSOh years. In lb19ws find him In an
other field. In that year Portugal had some
fighting to do with Morocco. which had tired
Of paying tribute and had broken treaty.
Magellan was ON hand. and there was . scan
del which accused him OF selling cattle to the
enemy. He returned to Portugal In 1914.
There seems to be little doubt OF his inno-
csnce, but his career IN the service OF his ma
tive country was atan end. Barros tells us that
the King. Dom Manoel. always loathsd him.
Magellan's disappointment was great but he
gave NO time to repininE. He publicly dsna-
tionslized himself and went over to the SER
vice of Charles V. OF Spain. The PortuGuese
writer's stormed at him. one called him mon.
stsr. But what he did Vas common. Many OF
the great navigators OF tho time took forelRn
service. Columbus among thom.
OF tho domestic afrairsot Magellan but little
is known. and We may dismiss them In ssu-
tence He married in 1917; his only child died
in September. 1521 five months after his own
death. and his wife died in March OF 1922.
They plotted aud talked in those days-it
would be difficult to say which tho more The
intriguing. tho threatening. the storm OF
words which attended the fitting out. under
the patronage Of the Emperor Charles. OF tho
expedition with which Magellan proposed to
reach the spice islands By sailing . westerly
course. are enough to make uas wonder how IL
could over have started. Jealous Portugal
kicked up tremendous row about the matter.
The Portuguese agent In Seville wrote rearns
Of information to his sovereign. and warned
Magellan that his path was beset with
rs many dangers as tho wheel Of st. Gath
crime. There was ono riot. and there
might we'll have been assassination. Those
who furnished the money for the venture were
unfortunate. One Of them. Cristobal de Haro.
q great East India merchant sort OF Roths-
child OF his country. recovered his money with
out interest at the end Of eighteen years. and
other investors after fighting for their rights
In tho courts for twenty years. got nothing at
n,,k eh >{r lou har I'd M n m uni.
tude to excite modern wonder. Tho whole
cost of the armada was only little moro than
S25O00. The fleet consisted OF five vessels-
tho Santo Antonio OF 120 tons. the Trinidad
of ITO tons, the Conception Of 30 tons. the
Victoria Of IS tons, and tho Santiago OF IS
toms Tho fancy recalls readily tho appear
ance OF those sixteenth century ships-ths
fat bulls. the lofty castles Offering them-
selves to the bufistings OF Father Neptune
at either end But al were decksd. and the
feet WAS in 90 far better than that Of Colum-
bus only one OF whose three vessels was thus
protected. The armada carried $50 mon. The
DAY Of tho Captain General was $3.50 year.
The instructions for the voyage wsre them-
solves almost long enough to sncircle the globe.
They entered into minute particulars regard
ing the pumps. the lights. intercourse with the
Moors and Q thousand matters besides. They
enjoined upon the CAPTAINS to treat the men
lovingly. The crew were forbidden to swear
or to play dice or cards. and violence to women
was to be severely punished. 49,
The makeup OF the crew WAS rs mis-
cellaneous as is that OF an American crew
nowAdays. Besides the Spaniards, Portuguese.
and Bssaues. there were Italians. French. Flem-
ings. Germ ans. Greeks. negroes. and Malays,
and ono Enelishman. Master Andrew OF
Bristol master gunner Of tho flagship. who
did not live to come back. Tho armament Of
the fleet consisted OF 90 culverins. 10 fal-
comets. 10 large bombards. 80 arquebuses,
1000 lances. 200 pixies. 10 dozen javelins, 95
dozen darts. go crossbows $50 dozen arrows
and sundry swords which the Captain TOOK"
There were also 100 corselets, with gauntlets.
shoulder pieces. and casques. an equal number
Of cuirasses. and various articles for barter.
particularly 10000 little bells.
An italian gentleman. sienor Antonio PiRa-
fetta, who desired to see Tho wonderful
things OF the ocean," and who accordingly
went along. has loft an account Of MaRellan's
great voyage from which all succeeding his
torians have drawn perhaps their chief mn-
tsrial. The story Of that voyage is familiar to
English readers. but We may note again, It's,
main points. and comment briefly upon one or
two. The feet sailed ON Sept. 20. 1919. run.
ming for time down the African coast. and
then across tho Atlantic. arriving on Cape 81.
Augustin. the easternmost point Of South
America. on Nov. 20. From this point It sailed
southwark during many days There is little
II any doubt that Magellan was In search Of
Q strait OF which he had received information in
Europe and which hs expected would afford
passage to the Moluccas- On March 81. 1920.
the armada was driven By stress OF weather
into Port st. Julian. on the PataRonian coast
Here mutiny broke out II was intensely
cold and tho man were on abort ratIona Thev