+Account of the Mutiny in Port St. Julian, and Gaspar Correa’s Account of the Voyage+ 243–256 +Cost of Magellan’s Fleet+ 257 +Appendix+ i–xiv +Index+ xvii–xx PLATES AND MAPS. +Portrait of Magellan+ _to face Title_ +Arms of Magellan+ 1 +Facsimiles of Signatures+ 1 +Pigafetta’s Map of the Straits+ 65 +Track of the “Victoria” in the Pacific+ 177 +Islands of Amsterdam and St. Paul+ 235 INTRODUCTION AND LIFE OF MAGELLAN. ——Teucer Salamina patremque Quum fugeret, tamen uda Lyæo Tempora populeâ fertur vinxisse coronâ, Sic tristes affatus amicos: Quo nos cunque feret melior Fortuna parente, Ibimus, o socii comitesque! Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro; Certus enim promisit Apollo Ambiguam tellure novâ Salamina futuram. O fortes, pejoraque passi Mecum sæpe viri, nunc vino pellite curas: Cras ingens iterabimus æquor. Though Magellan’s enterprise was the greatest ever undertaken by any navigator, yet he has been deprived of his due fame by the jealousy which has always existed between the two nations inhabiting the Peninsula: the Spaniards would not brook being commanded by a Portuguese, and the Portuguese have not yet forgiven Magellan for having abandoned them to serve Castile. But Magellan really had no choice; for if the western passage which he expected to discover was to be sought for, it could only be under the auspices of Spain, within whose demarcation those waters lay. It would seem that D. Manuel had only himself to blame for the loss of Magellan’s services; and, as M. Amoretti well observes, D. Manuel ought to have been well aware of the value of those services, since Charles V knew it, and showed his appreciation of them. It is difficult to believe that the injury of which Magellan complained, and which led him to seek other service, was merely, as Osorio says, the refusal of promotion in palace rank, and which he had well deserved, especially since the motive ascribed by Osorio to the king’s refusal, namely the necessity of avoiding a bad precedent, was not alone a sufficient affront to account for Magellan’s sacrificing all his hopes and property in his own country, had he not also felt that the king was condemning him to inaction, obscurity, and uselessness. Barros, indeed, says that: