. The life of Ferdinand Magellan and the first circumnavigation of the globe : 1480-1521. to be iminhabited,and next day, being anxious to rest his sick, Magellanordered tents to be set up on shore and a pig to be killedfor them—which animal, no doubt, was obtained duiingtheir stay at the Ladrone Islands. The sight of the fleetattracted the notice of a passing prau, and on Monday,March i8th, the Europeans made acquaintance for thefirst time with the inhabitants of the Philippine were of a very different nature to those of theLadrone gioup. The boat contained some notables fromthe
. The life of Ferdinand Magellan and the first circumnavigation of the globe : 1480-1521. to be iminhabited,and next day, being anxious to rest his sick, Magellanordered tents to be set up on shore and a pig to be killedfor them—which animal, no doubt, was obtained duiingtheir stay at the Ladrone Islands. The sight of the fleetattracted the notice of a passing prau, and on Monday,March i8th, the Europeans made acquaintance for thefirst time with the inhabitants of the Philippine were of a very different nature to those of theLadrone gioup. The boat contained some notables fromthe little island of Suluan, who welcomed the new-comerswithout fear, Magellan ordered some caps, looking- 1 We learn from the diary of the Genoese pilot that Magellan gavethem the name of Islas de las Velas Latinas, or the Lateen-sail Islands,from the number of craft thus rigged with which they abounded. 2 Humunu of Pigafetta, who calls their anchorage the Aquade desbons signes. w Scale, 1,000 I . t •,. ^c^\,;a>-~K Tracks ofthelactoria. A^, ^L^ y ^ //X^\\ ?? T. 1521.] THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 227 glasses, bells, and other trifles to be given to them, andin return was presented with fish and palm-wine. Piga-fettas figs a foot long, and two cocchi, which he alsomentions among the gifts, we have little difiiculty inrecognising as bananas and coco-nuts. Friendship withthe natives was still further cemented by their visitingthe ships, and the hopes of the Spaniards were rousedby being shown various spices, which must have enabledthem for the first time to realise the proximity of theMoluccas. To the archipelago thus discovered the Captain-generalgave the name of St. Lazarus, for he had first sightedthe group upon the day sacred to that saint. It wasnot till long after that the present appellation of theIslas Philippinas was conferred upon them,^ and mean-while, curiously enough, they became known to the Portu-guese as the Eastern Islands while the Spaniards calledthem t
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