The Sentinel=record., 1914-09-20
WORLD VOYAGE CUT
 ABOUT 5000 MILES
COMPARISON OF THE FIRST TRIP MADE AROUND THE WORLD
 AND THE PRESENT.
N"h'VeFsary Recalls the Trials and lneonVeniences That Magellan En- oountered When he Made Worlo Voyage.

Three hundred and ninety-ive years ago today Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Spain upon his first voyage around the world. Of the five vessels that made up his fleet, man. ned by motley crew of 2SO men. only one ship and IS men were des, tuned to finish the journey. Magellan was to die in a land unknown to Eu- ropeans. A hidden rock off the en, trance to the strait that now bears the haVigator's name sunk the first shlp. Mutiny was responsible for the ueath of three ship-captains and the JOSS Of another ship whose crew sud denly turned tail and fled back to- ward Spain, On November 2S. 1920. Magellan, with three ships remaining. sailed ont of the strait and was "t1e ilrst that ever burst into thaa silent sea- of the Pacific Ten thousand miles of unfathomed ocean lay be, tween him and his first sight of human beings. Beset with scurvv. Putrld drinking water, and food alive "lth worms, they sailed onward con tnuaI'y ever followyinge the some toWarde the West" On March 1G. Io2l they sighted the Philippines. converting a tribe 10 christianitv. Magellan turned crusader and accom-. panied his converts to war against il neighboring tribe. The battle was disastrous. Magellan lost his life
 me converted natives turned on the 0panards, massacred thirty of them and drove the remainder of them to sea One of their vessels, unfit for further sea service, was burned: an- other sprang a leak, and surviving snip, manned by 4G sailors with Sebastian del Cano as captain set sail for distant Spain. Almost three years to day from the sailing of Magellan upon the first circumnaviga, ton Of the globe, the vessel with only lS men surviving sailed into the mouth of the Guadalquivir in Spain.
 Today voyage around the world is a matter of only as many months as the first circumnavigators required years. The whole complexion of ocean traffic has been changed Not only has steam increased the speed
 of ships but the ingenuity of man has lessened the actual steamship distance around the globe by at least a fourth. Two mighty engineering teats, the Panama and the Suez canals, have accomplished this. If a modern transatlantic liner. some of which are capable of more than 500 miles a day, set sail from Mage lan's starting point in Spain upon voy, age around the earth, and was able to maintain it's highest speed through out the journey, it would arrive back in port less than two months of the day of sailing. The Panama canal would not only eliminate the journey around South America but the cold and danger of a trip around Cape ..Horn. Likewise the Suez canal re, moves the necessity of following the course around Africa and offers 6 safe swift and comfortable voyage under tropical skies. The two canals have reduced the world voyage by at
 east 5000 miles, making the total length of the journey little more than 22.000 miles, according to the esti- mate of the U. s. Hydrographic bu- reau. Magellan's ships would appear like pigmies beside the modern ocean liners-all could be placed on a single deck of the largest steamer. Their crews of 2S0 men would scarcely be enough to make up the gang of stokers that shovel coal into the boilers of some of the modern ships
 The largest ship afloat today has a total crew of more than 1000 men.