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plOring party, now reduced to 1O0 oou19 ~ told was not deemed sufficient to convt~ solved. therefore, to burn the most djiap. dated one-the Conception. At a general council Juan Caraballo was chosen con- mander in chief of the expedition. VIII Gonzalo De Espinosa as captain Of tho Victoria. The royal instructions weyo read and it was decided to 90 to t1o' island. of Bornu. already known to tho Portugese and marked on their chart9t off the coast of Palauan island an1 thence navtgated to within ten miloo e the capital of Bornu (probably Bruees( Here they fell in with number of nAf1No canoes. in one of which was the k1n49 secretary. There was great noiss wtfe the sound of drums and trumpets anA the ships saluted tho strangers with tha19 guns. M the spaniards as if they were old frisnA1 and asked them who they were and whoo' they came for. They replied that thoY were vassals of the King of Spain auA wished to barter goods. Presents w6xe exchanged and several of the spaniardp went ashore. They were met on shoro by over 1000 armed men and safely = corted to the kings quarters. After cat isfying His Majesty's numerous inou1rien turn with his companions He rsportea to CarabaIlo all he had seen end h . council 1t was agreed that the town Wn9 too large and the armed men too nu> merous to warrant the safsty of . longer stay.
 Natives Were Treacherous.
 However. being in need of certain coru- moditfes, five men were dispatched to the town. As days passed by their prclonR64 absence caused suspicion and anxiety. so the Standards took in reprisal the sor of the King of Luzon Island, who had arrived there to trade, accompanied by 100 men and five women in . large prallsl. The prince made a solemn VOW to zee that the five Spaniards returned and Ieft hostages. Then Caraballo sent messags to the King of Bornu intimating that af his people were not liberated he would seize all the junks and merchandise h0 Thereupon two of the retained spaniarde were set free, but in spite of tho noxz- ure of craft laden with silk and cotton the three men had to be abandoned and the expedition set sail.
 For reasons not very clear Carab8yl0 was deprived of the supreme command and Espinosa was appointed in his plsce, while Juan Sebastian Elcano was elected captain of the Victoria With a native met on the way, the ships shaped theif course toward the Moluccas islands and November g. 1921, th~y arrived at the is- land of Tidor. Thus the essential object of the expedition was gained-the discov- cry of western route to the Spice is- lands.
 A Series of Disasters.
 The King. richly adorned, went out with his suite to receive and weicosDs the Spaniards. He was anxious to hartes with them, and when the Trinidad was consequently laden with valuable spices It was discovered that she had sprsys ] leak Her cargo was therefore trans ferred to the sister ship, while thf Trinidad remained in Tidor for repairs. and Elcano was deputed to make tlf,' voyage home with the Victoria, taking the western route of the Portugese. fin violation of tho treaty of Tordesilias. Ei- canos crew consisted of fifty-three EO- ropeans and a dozen natives of Tidor. The Victoria started for Spain at the be- ginning of the year 1b22. passed through the Spnda straits at great risk of being seized by the Portugese. experienced vto- lent storms in the Mosambique chanel. was almost wrecked rounding the Cape of Good Hope, few of the crew died-- their only food was scanty ration of rice-and in their extreme distress they put in at Santiago Island. off Cape Verde. to procure provisions and beg assistance from the Portugese governor. It was like jumping into the Hons mouth The governor imprisoned those who went to rights; he seized the boat which brought them ashore, inquired of them where they had obtained the cargo and projected the capture of the Victoria.
  prehend the situation. He raised anchor and cleared out of the harbor and, as 1t happened several times before those who lad the misfortune to be sent ashore were abandoned by their countrymen.
 The Home-Coming.
 The Victoria made the port of San LSn- car de Barrameda on Sept 6, 15z2 so that in a little over three years Juan Sebastian Elcano had performed tle most notable voyage hitherto on record it was the first yet accomplished around the world. It must. however, be borne in mind that the discovery of the way to the Moluccas. going westward, was and that the route thence to Europe. continuing westward. had long before been determined by the Portugese trad CTS, whose charts Elcano used.
 When Elcano and his seventeen cors- panions disembarked their appearance men, weather-beaten and famished The city of Seville received them with accls- nation but their first act was to walk barefooted in procession, holding lighted candles in their hands, to the church to give thanks to the Almighty for their gers which they had encountered. Clothes. money and all necessaries were suplied to them by royal bounty, whilst Elcano and the most intelligent of his companions were cited to appear at court to narrate their adventures. His Majesty received them with marked deference- Elcano was rewarded with a life pension of 800 ducats--worth at that date about $560-and as a lasting remembrance of his unprecedented feat his royal master knighted him and conceded to him the right of using on his escutcheon globe bearing the motto. "Prtmus circundedit me-"