. The life of Ferdinand Magellan and the first circumnavigation of the globe : 1480-1521. cluded that Magellan had by this time attained. Thequestion for decision was whether the merchant ships—then loading in Cochim—should assist at the intendedsiege of Goa or not. Magellan, called upon to speak,gave a very decided opinion on the subject, saying thatthey ought not to take the ships of burden to Goa,inasmuch as, if they went thither, they could not passthis year to Portugal, . . and that there would notremain time for them to lay out their money, nor to doanything of what was necessary for the
. The life of Ferdinand Magellan and the first circumnavigation of the globe : 1480-1521. cluded that Magellan had by this time attained. Thequestion for decision was whether the merchant ships—then loading in Cochim—should assist at the intendedsiege of Goa or not. Magellan, called upon to speak,gave a very decided opinion on the subject, saying thatthey ought not to take the ships of burden to Goa,inasmuch as, if they went thither, they could not passthis year to Portugal, . . and that there would notremain time for them to lay out their money, nor to doanything of what was necessary for the voyage. Albu-querque was of a different opinion, and said that he 1 Correa says that they returned to Cochim, while Castanhedaimplies that they went to Cananor. Barros, however, distinctly statesthat Pacheco returned with the rescued crew to Goa, and that theythere found Alfonso dAlbuquerque. 2 The document recording this council is preserved in the Torre doTombo at Lisbon {Corp. pt. 2a, ma?. 23, doc. 190), and a trans-lation appears in Lord Stanleys Magellan, p. sxi. /. APrONSO n ALBUQUERQUE. 1510.] SERVICE WITH ALBUQUERQUE. 63 would sail with as many ships and men as he could gettogether, and would go and take Goa, as he trusted inour Saviours Passion that He would aid him ; but headded that he would not take any one away with himagainst his will. The captains, Correa tells us, paid littleattention to this, being occupied with the profits result-ing from the sale and embarkation of the goods whichthey had to convey to Portugal. ^ Magellan, we know, did not belong either actually orin spirit to such men as these, and although we do notfind him mentioned by name in Correas list of the valentes caualleiros who accompanied Albuquerque inthis expedition, he may well have come under the headof the outros caualleiros honrados who were Viceroy arrived off Goa on the 24th fleet consisted of thirty-four sail, which carriedfifteen hundred Portuguese
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