. The life of Ferdinand Magellan and the first circumnavigation of the globe : 1480-1521. To the ships themselves allusion has alreadybeen made. They were for the most part old, small, andin anything but good condition. The Trinidad, thoughnot the largest, was the most seaworthy and mostsuitable for capitana, and at her mast-head Magellanaccordingly flew his pennant. Juan de Cartagena cap-tained the aS. Antonio, the largest vessel of the Concepcion was commanded by Caspar Quesada, andthe Victoria by the traitor Luis de Mendoza, treasurerof the armada, who had already been reprimanded
. The life of Ferdinand Magellan and the first circumnavigation of the globe : 1480-1521. To the ships themselves allusion has alreadybeen made. They were for the most part old, small, andin anything but good condition. The Trinidad, thoughnot the largest, was the most seaworthy and mostsuitable for capitana, and at her mast-head Magellanaccordingly flew his pennant. Juan de Cartagena cap-tained the aS. Antonio, the largest vessel of the Concepcion was commanded by Caspar Quesada, andthe Victoria by the traitor Luis de Mendoza, treasurerof the armada, who had already been reprimanded bythe King for insolence to the Captain-general. The littleSantiago was given to Joao Serrao, whose long experiencein the East and great knowledge of navigation renderedhim one of the most important members of the expedi-tion. The command of the Santiago by Serrao was, as ithappened, an affair of no little moment to for his old friend and comrade it is more than pos-sible that the mutiny of Port St. JuHan might have proved too much for him, and the great discovery of142. 1519.] THE LAST VOYAGE—I. 143 Magellans Straits might have been postponed to deckanother brow with laurels. Upon the Portuguese inthe fleet, despite his altered nationality, Magellan reliedeven more as friends than as navigators. By the timethe squadron had crossed the bar, the originally-permittodnumber of five had greatly increased. Among the 280men, more or less, who sailed, thirty-seven, as we haveseen, were Portuguese, and of these many held mostimportant posts. On the Trinidad were Estevao Gomezthe pilot, Magellans brother-in-law—Duarte Barbosa—Alvaro de la Mezquita, and eight others. The S. Antoniobore the cosmographer Andres de San Martin and JoaoRodriguez de Mafra. All the pilots of the fleet, indeed,were Portuguese, just as the gunners were foreigners;and Joao Lopez Carvalho and Vasco Gallego navigatedrespectively the Concepcion and the Victoria. The armament of the fleet was on an
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