Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . del Fuego was still in sight upon their right hand,they noticed a high, rugged island upon their left, which theynamed Staten Land, or Land of the States. The ship passedbetween the two, and soon after rounded the promontory whichadvanced the farthest into the sea, to which, in honor of the portfrom which the expedition had sailed, Schouten gave the nameof Cape Horn. He then launched into the South Sea, beingthe first who passed completely round the South America
Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . del Fuego was still in sight upon their right hand,they noticed a high, rugged island upon their left, which theynamed Staten Land, or Land of the States. The ship passedbetween the two, and soon after rounded the promontory whichadvanced the farthest into the sea, to which, in honor of the portfrom which the expedition had sailed, Schouten gave the nameof Cape Horn. He then launched into the South Sea, beingthe first who passed completely round the South American con-tinent. Lemaire claimed the honor of giving his name to thestrait which had brought them to the Cape,—one which clearlybelonged to Schouten, as the leader and pilot of the strait is still known by the name of the supercargo, geo- MAN UPON THE SEA. 31T graphers having consecrated, by silence, this manifest act of injustice. Altering their course to the northward, they soon recognisedthe mouth of Magellans Strait,—which rendered their discoverycomplete. They returned thanks to God for their success, and. CAPE HORN. passed the wine cup three times round the company. Schoutenthen made for the island of Juan Fernandez, where he hoped togive rest and refreshment to his sickly and wearied crew. Thecurrents and the winds would not permit him to land; and he wascompelled to start across the Pacific in a crazy ship and with adisabled company. Like Magellan, who traversed this oceanwithout seeing any of the important islands which, just belowthe line, extend from America to Asia, forming, as it were, agirdle from shore to shore, Schouten discovered but a few in-significant rocks and reefs, passing between and at a distancefrom the great archipelagoes which dot the Pacific in this lati- 318 MAN UPON THE SEA. tude. At one of these spots his men met an enemy morenumerous and formidable than any tribe of savages. Innume-rable myriads of flies followed them from the sh
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