Our country in story . n, the hero of the greatest achievement in the historyof the world. Poor Magellan! Instead of pushing on tothe Moluccas at once, he first tried to win over the nativesof the various islands to promise that they would obey theSpanish King and trade only with the people of Spain. He found all the chiefs friendly and willing, except onthe little island of Mactan. Here tht ruler would not yieldto his wishes. Magellan tried to conquer the island, buthe and a number of his men were most cruelly killed bythe natives. Not for an enormous reward and all the FIRST VOYAGE AROUND TH
Our country in story . n, the hero of the greatest achievement in the historyof the world. Poor Magellan! Instead of pushing on tothe Moluccas at once, he first tried to win over the nativesof the various islands to promise that they would obey theSpanish King and trade only with the people of Spain. He found all the chiefs friendly and willing, except onthe little island of Mactan. Here tht ruler would not yieldto his wishes. Magellan tried to conquer the island, buthe and a number of his men were most cruelly killed bythe natives. Not for an enormous reward and all the FIRST VOYAGE AROUND THE WORLD 71 glittering trinkets the Spaniards could offer would thesavages give up the body of Magellan. A monument nowstands on the spot on which the greatest of sailors,Magellan, is supposed to have been slain. The Spaniards were now too few in number to take careof three ships. Hence they burned the Concepcion andthen sadly set out southward toward the long-looked-for Moluccas. They finally found them and landed with. ofM>-J yl^/iort Hft^ti TIERRA DEL FUEGO MAP SHOWING MAGELLAN s VOYAGE AROUND THE GLOBE great rejoicing. They bartered their remaining store oftrinkets and loaded their two little crafts with twenty-six tons of cloves. When they hoisted their sails to steerhomeward they found, to their great disappointment, thatthe Trinidad had sprung a leak and had to be left greater part of her crew died of famine and remainder finally fell into the hands of a band of Por-tuguese. The only remaining vessel, the Victoria, commanded byElcano, crossed the Indian Ocean, rounded the Cape ofGood Hope, and finally reached Seville, in September of 72 OUR COUNTRY IN STORY 1522, just three years after Magellan had started out onhis westward voyage. Of the five ships and nearly threehundred men, only one ship and eighteen sick and fam-ished men came back to tell the sad, though wonderfulstory of the first voyage around the earth. The triedlittle band we
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