. The life of Ferdinand Magellan and the first circumnavigation of the globe : 1480-1521. e paid within eightdays. This figured as a tribute to the King of Spain,^and on receiving it—the 7 th October—they returnedthe rajah some of his krisses and arquebuses, and, havingadded a few presents, permitted him his freedom. Rounding Cagayan Sulu, the vessels sighted theisland of Sulu, and would have visited it but for a headwind which compelled them to bear away for the south-west point of Mindanao. This they coasted, and,passing between it and Basilan, sailed for some distanceup the Gulf of Mindanao
. The life of Ferdinand Magellan and the first circumnavigation of the globe : 1480-1521. e paid within eightdays. This figured as a tribute to the King of Spain,^and on receiving it—the 7 th October—they returnedthe rajah some of his krisses and arquebuses, and, havingadded a few presents, permitted him his freedom. Rounding Cagayan Sulu, the vessels sighted theisland of Sulu, and would have visited it but for a headwind which compelled them to bear away for the south-west point of Mindanao. This they coasted, and,passing between it and Basilan, sailed for some distanceup the Gulf of Mindanao. Here they fell in with alarge prau, which, following their usual custom, they1 Document No. xxvii, of Navarrete, vol. iv. p. 296. 276 LIFE OF MAGELLAN. [CHAP. XI. captured, after a desperate resistance in which seven ofher crew were killed. For the first time the nearnessof their goal was revealed to them, for they foimd thatthe captain had actually been in the house of FranciscoSerrao in Temate. The end of their troubles wasapproaching, and the riches of the Spice Islands—the. THE MOLUCCAS. long-sought Eldorado of the old world—were about tobecome a reahty. Upon the details of the course of the two ships afterleaving Mindanao it is not necessary to dwell. Theysteered southward, passing the Sanghir and Talautislands, and, sighting the northern extremity of Celebes,altered course to the south-east. On Wednesday, the 1521.] ARRIVAL AT THE MOLUCCAS. 277 6th November, they passed between Mean and Zoar—now known as Tifore and Mayo islands, and a littlelater the high peaks of Ternate and Tidor appeared totheir delighted gaze. How ovei-joyed the half-starvedand toil-worn mariners must have been we can imagine. The pilot who had remained with us, says Pigafetta, told us that they were the Moluccas, for the which wethanked God, and to comfort us we discharged all ourartillery. Nor ought it to cause astonishment that wewere so rejoiced, since we had passed twenty-sevenmonths,
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