The First voyage round the world, by Magellan . ople wish to light a firethey take a pointed stick and rub it with another until theymake a fire in the pith of a tree which is placed betweenthese sticks. (In the Milan Edition here begins Boole II.) Wednesday, the twenty-eighth of November, 1520, wecame forth out of the said strait, and entered into thePacific sea, where we remained three months and twentydays without taking in provisions or other refreshments,and we only ate old biscuit reduced to powder, and full ofgrubs, and stinking from the dirt which the rats had madeon it when eating the
The First voyage round the world, by Magellan . ople wish to light a firethey take a pointed stick and rub it with another until theymake a fire in the pith of a tree which is placed betweenthese sticks. (In the Milan Edition here begins Boole II.) Wednesday, the twenty-eighth of November, 1520, wecame forth out of the said strait, and entered into thePacific sea, where we remained three months and twentydays without taking in provisions or other refreshments,and we only ate old biscuit reduced to powder, and full ofgrubs, and stinking from the dirt which the rats had madeon it when eating the good biscuit, and we drank waterthat was yellow and stinking. We also ate the ox hideswhich were under the main-yard,^ so that the yard shouldnot break the rigging :* they were very hard on account of 1 This passage is not quite clear:— Quand il me veyt escripre cesnoms apres luy demandant des aultres il mentendoit auecq la plume enmain. 2 The printed edition of Milan has: ammalato dell infermit^ di cuimori. 3 Antena magiore. ?• Pigafettas Map of Magellans Straits. VOYAGE IN THE SOUTH PACiriC. 65 tlie sun, rain, and wind, and we left tliem for four or fivedays in the sea, and then we put them a little on the em-bers, and so ate them; also the sawdust of wood,^ and ratswhich cost half-a-crown^ each, moreover enough of themwere not to be got. Besides the above-named evils, thismisfortune which I will mention was the worst, it was thatthe upper and lower gums of most of our men grew somuch^ that they could not eat, and in this way so many suf-fered, that nineteen died, and the other giant, and an Indianfrom the county of Verzin. Besides those who died, twenty-five or thirty fell ill of divers sicknesses, both in the arms andlegs, and other places, in such manner that very few re-mained healthy. However, thanks be to the Lord, I had nosickness. During those three months and twenty days wewent in an open sea,* while we ran fully four thousandleagues in the Pacific sea.
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