. An illustrated history of our war with Spain : its causes, incidents, and results. Aguinaldos Exile. WHEN Pope Alexander VI. divided the world be-tween Portugal and Spain by a line from pole topole some three hundred miles west of the Azores,as related in an early chapter, he did not imagine that one navi-gator sailing east and another west might meet somewhere onthe other side of the globe. Yet this very thing happened,and, in consequence of it, for three hundred years the Spanishhad one day too many in their calendar and the Portuguese oneday too few. It happened that Magellan, who was a P
. An illustrated history of our war with Spain : its causes, incidents, and results. Aguinaldos Exile. WHEN Pope Alexander VI. divided the world be-tween Portugal and Spain by a line from pole topole some three hundred miles west of the Azores,as related in an early chapter, he did not imagine that one navi-gator sailing east and another west might meet somewhere onthe other side of the globe. Yet this very thing happened,and, in consequence of it, for three hundred years the Spanishhad one day too many in their calendar and the Portuguese oneday too few. It happened that Magellan, who was a Portu-guese, had begun his career as a navigator by sailing underPortuguese commanders eastward around the Cape of GoodHope to the Indies, and he had a desire to lead an expeditionto the rich spice islands about which he had heard. Buthis king treated him ungratefully, so he transferred his al-legiance to the Spanish flag, and finally persuaded Charles Spain that the wonderful islands would lie within that partof the world the Pope had given to Spain, if only good care (534). THE FIRST JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD 537 was taken to sail westward instead of eastward. Thus it hap-pened that MageUan made that wonderful journey — themost wonderful in history, as John Fiske, the historian, callsit, doubtless the greatest feat of navigation that has ever beenperformed. His ships were the first to circumnavigate theglobe, though Magellan himself was killed by natives in theislands which were claimed by Spain and soon became knownas the Philippines, in honor of Philip II., one of the most dis-honored kings who ever reigned in Spain. Antonio de Morga, writing about eighty years later, or in1609, put this maritime achievement in this way: Havingwon Atoerica, a fourth part of the earth which the ancientsnever knew, the Spaniards sailed, following the sun, and dis-covered in the western ocean an archipelago of many islandsadjacent to further Asia, inhabited by various nations, abound-ing
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