. The life of Ferdinand Magellan and the first circumnavigation of the globe : 1480-1521. was granted an annualpension of 500 ducats, and a coat-of-arms commemo-rating the services he had rendered to Spain. ^ Fortunebefriended him indeed. The little we know of him inMagellans voyage—for until his appointment after thewholesale massacre at Sebu he was comparatively anobscure personage—is far from being in his favour. He 1 Oviedo, bk. xx. cap. iv. The king, he says, le hizo mer^edesy le con^edio un privillegio de muy nobles armas. 2 Vide Medina, vol. ii. p. 180. 3 Anns, or; two cinnamon sticks i
. The life of Ferdinand Magellan and the first circumnavigation of the globe : 1480-1521. was granted an annualpension of 500 ducats, and a coat-of-arms commemo-rating the services he had rendered to Spain. ^ Fortunebefriended him indeed. The little we know of him inMagellans voyage—for until his appointment after thewholesale massacre at Sebu he was comparatively anobscure personage—is far from being in his favour. He 1 Oviedo, bk. xx. cap. iv. The king, he says, le hizo mer^edesy le con^edio un privillegio de muy nobles armas. 2 Vide Medina, vol. ii. p. 180. 3 Anns, or; two cinnamon sticks in saltire proper, three nutmegsand twelve cloves ; on a chief gules a castle, or. Crest, a globe bear-ing the motto, Primus eircun^dedisti me. Supporters, two Malaykings, crowned, holding in the exterior hand a spice branch, proper. 308 LIFE OF MAGELLAN. [CHAP. XII. took an active part in the mutiny at Port St. Julian, andgave evidence at Valladolid upon certain events of thevoyage which was so biassed, and in some cases sountrue, that he forfeits much of his claim to our admira-. COAT-OF-ARMS AND AUTOGRAPH OF DEL CANO. tion. As Vergara says,^ Elcano did not always re-member the loyalty due to Magellan and his can he be given any very great credit for his 1 Anuario Hydrogr, de Cliile, vol. v. p. 396. 1522.] SEBASTIAN DEL CANO. 309 navigation, for it must not be forgotten that wlien hetook the command the hitherto unknown Pacific hadbeen crossed, and the ship was far beyond the longitudeof the Moluccas, and dis-tant from them only sixhundred miles. Antoniode Brito, moreover, in hisletter to the King of Por-tugal, tells us that afterthe death of Magellan,Juan Bautista Poncerowas the chief to del Cano fell thegood fortune of bringinghome the Victoria, and, asher captain, the honoursaccorded upon the occa-sion of such a great eventnaturally fell to his may be imaginedthat the arrival of theVictoria was a matter ofno little joy to Alvaro deM
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