This _Magaglianus_, or _Magellanus_, a Gentleman of _Portugal_, having perform’d things of great importance for his King, in _Africa_, although with no less trouble than Charge, desir’d an addition of half a Ducket a Moneth added to his Annual Pension; an inconsiderable Sum to make a Request for, yet though so little, was as niggardly deny’d: Whereupon, highly incensed, he study’d no little revenge; to which effect, soon after an opportunity was presented, by means of _Franciscus Serranus_, who writ from _Ternata_ to him, that he should speedily come thither, which he soon after did upon this account: [Sidenote: Strange Giant.] Pope _Alexander_ the Sixth, having fixt Terminaries between the Kings of _Castile_ and _Portugal_, both busie at that time in discovering new Countreys, Order’d, That _Castile_ should possess all the Coasts lying to the West of the chief _Meridian_, and _Portugal_ to the East: By vertue of this partition, the rich Spicy _Molucca_ Islands fell absolutely to the _Portuguese_: Now _Magellanus_ perswaded _Charles the Fifth_, that they might be Sail’d to with a Westerly Course, and therefore belong’d to _Castile_; Which advice, _Charles the Fifth_ considering, and approving, Rigg’d out five Ships, with which _Magellanus_ set Sail from _Sevil_, the tenth of _August, Anno 1519._ five Moneths he ply’d up and down the Coast inhabited by the _Patagones_, where he found none but one single Person, or rather a Monster, a Giant ten Foot high, who coming Aboard his Ship, devour’d a great Hamper full of Biskets, and at one Draught drunk up nine Pottels of Water. He also saw several Trees which had been Hew’n with Axes, and Crosses made on the tops of them. Whilst he lay in that Harbor, which was call’d _St. Julian_, he Cashier’d his Vice-Admiral, _John Carthagena_, with his Father Confessor, and sparing their lives, set them ashore, and there left them to seek their Fortunes, though they had Conspir’d to Murther him. [Sidenote: _Straights_ of _Magellan_, how found.] _Magellanus_ from thence Sailing afterwards Southerly along _America_, to forty two Degrees Southern Latitude, was engag’d with the eddyings of a very strong Current, which driving one of the Ships into a Bay, split against a blind Rock, but the Men being sav’d in their Boat, were driven farther and farther into a Channel, between high and Snowy Mountains; whereupon he immediately judg’d (as the famous Negromancer _Roderick Talerus_ had often told him) that there was the Passage, through which the Northern Ocean flow’d into the Southern; wherefore he resolutely adventur’d to Sail into those _Sraights_, which in some places narrow, and in others broad, is an hundred and twenty Leagues long, and full of small Isles and dangerous Rocks. Whilst he still Sail’d on, the Ship call’d _Antonio_, Tacking about, return’d to _Cadiz_.