CHAPTER XXII.--Ponce de Leon--The Fountain of Youth--Discovery of Florida--The Martyrs and the Tortugas--The Bahama Channel--Vasco Nuñez de Balboa--He goes to Sea in a Barrel--Marries a Lady of the Isthmus--His Search for Gold--Hears of a Mighty Ocean--Undertakes to reach it--Preparations for the Expedition--Leoncico the Bloodhound--Battle with a Cacique--Ascent of the Mountains--Balboa mounts to the Summit alone--The First Sight of the Pacific--Ceremonies of taking Possession--Balboa up to his Knees in the Ocean--Every one tastes the Water--A Voyage upon the Pacific, and a Narrow Escape--Ignominious Fate of Balboa--Juan Diaz de Solis--Discovers the Rio de la Plata--His Horrible Death by Cannibals 213 CHAPTER XXIII.--Remarkable Foresight of the Court of Rome--A Papal Bull--Ferdinand Magellan--He offers his Services to Spain--His Plans--His Fleet--Pigafetta the Historian--An Inauspicious Start--Teneriffe and its Legends--St. Elmo's Fire--The Crew make Famous Bargains with the Cannibals--Heavy Price paid for the King of Spades--Patagonian Giants--Pigafetta's Exaggerations--The Healing Art in Patagonia--The Tragedy of Port Julian--Discovery of a Strait--The Open Sea--Cape Deseado--The Ocean named Pacific--Ravages of the Scurvy--A Patagonian Paul--The Needle becomes Lethargic--Discovery of the Ladrones--The First Cocoanut--A Catholic Ceremony upon a Pagan Island 225 CHAPTER XXIV.--Discovery of the Philippines--The King of Zubu wishes the King of Spain to pay Tribute--He finally abandons the idea--A whole Island converted to Christianity--Magellan performs a Miracle--A Dumb Man recovers his Speech--Magellan invades a Refractory Island--His Death--Attempts to recover his Body--The Christian Island returns to Idolatry--The Ships arrive at Borneo--The Sailors drink too freely of Arrack--Festivities and Treachery--Vivid Imagination of Pigafetta--The Fleet arrives at the Moluccas--The King of Tidore--A Brisk Trade in Cloves--The Spice-Tariff--The Vittoria sails Homeward--Pigafetta is again imaginative--Arrival at the Cape Verds--Loss of One Day--Completion of the First Voyage of Circumnavigation--Pigafetta's Romance becomes Veritable History 236 SECTION IV. FROM THE FIRST VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD TO THE DISCOVERY OF CAPE HORN: 1519-1616.