The Ordway new era., 1920-10-22
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recorded. He had the advantage of having taken
with him a very capable reporter an Italian gen
tleman from the city of Vicenza. one Antonio
Pigafettn, who completed the whole tour OF the
world and wrote account of It. 1t was soon
translated into English of the sixteenth century.
and Shakespeare there is good reason to believe,
read 1t, for In ''The Tempest" Caliban's Sctebos
is none other than the devil-god of the Patagoni-
ans reported by the faithful Pigafetta, says the
New York Times Book Review. The journal hns
been more recently translated by Lord Stanley or
Alderly in his First Voyage Around the World
while +. H. H. Guillemard of Cambridge ha sup
piled excellent biography of Magellan and nc
count of the voyage.
In recountng Magelan's momentous voyage
1t is necessary to go back to the famous bull of
Pope Alexander VI which divided the world be-
tween the Spanish and the Portuguese. The
Spaniards We're forbidden to sail TO the Indies by
the way of the Cape of Good Hope, and their
only hope of reaching this most desired of all
lands was by finding way to the west through
the Mundus Novus At this time belief that
such passage existed far to the south was well
fixed in many minds.
Having proposed TO his king, Manuel of Portu-
gal, that he make this voyage through the strait
he presumed to be there. and having met with n
refusal, the Portuguese asked permission to orer
his services elsewhere. The king said "he might
do as he pleased" and did not offer his hand to
be kissed at parting.
In October, 1917, therefore, Magellan arrived In
Seville and at once found the favor he had missed
ed at once fit out expedition. More than a
year passed in preparations and on September 20,
1919 a little fleet of five vessels cleared the mouth
of the Guadalquvir and passed out to sea on the
eliminating voyage of the great age of discovery.
The ships and their commanders were fol-
lows
Trinidad 11O tons-Captain, Gen. Ferdinand
Magellan pilot. Estevan Gomez.
San Antonio, 120 tons-Captain, Juan de Carta-
gena.
Conception 90 tons-Captain Gaspar Quesada.
Victoria. So tons-Captaln, Luis de Mendoza.
Santiago 10 tons-Captain, Juan Serrano.
The crews of these five ships we're mixture of
many natonalities-a peculiarly fitting compile
ment since the voyage was much less gain for
a single nation (as was the discovery of the new
world) but rather contribution to the fund of
human knowledge and an Introduction OF the world
to all the people who live upon It, There were
about $50 men on board.
OF the four captains only one proved faithful.
The others had plotted treason even before the
ships sailed and while they knelt at the final mass
before going on board, Magellan was warned and
was unafrad.
The little armada left the Canaries on October
g. 1919 and ran down the African coast for sew
eral weeks. buffeted by heavy storms. while food
and water grew scarce.
On November 20 the ships reached the coast of
Brazil near Pernambuco. Through February and
March they followed the coast southward. and
finally found shelter in the hnrbor of ST. Julian
md settled down there to pass the winter on the
last day of March. On the next day, which
Easter the smodering mutIny broke out.
The way in which Magellan crushed that for
midable uprising in his own ranks Is the best
Indication of the character of the commander that
bas been left to us. When the mutineers had
three of the five ships in their control Magellan
made a raid on Mendoza's ship. the Victoria,
and that captain met his death with n dagger
thrust in the throat. The two other ships
blockaded. Strong parties then boarded the San
Antonio. and that ship was captured. The third
ship, the Conception, thereupon surrendered.
Quesada was beheaded md quartered. Carta-
gena of the San Antonio and guilty priest Pero