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After we had eroded the line we fleered weft-by-north. We then ran two hundredleagues towards the weft ; when, changing our courfe again, We ran weft - by-fouth untilin the latitude of thirteen degrees north* ; we trufted by this courfe to reach CapeGatticara which cofmographers have placed in this latitude, but they are miftaken, thiscape lying twelve degrees more towards the north. They muft, however, be excufedthe error .in their plan, as they have not like us had the advantage of vifiting thefeparts f.
When we had run feventy leagues in this direction and were in latitude twelvedegrees north, longitude one hundred and forty-fix degrees, on Wednefday the 6th ofMarch, we difeovered in the north-weft a fmall ifland, and afterwards two others in thefouth-weft. The firft was more lofty and larger than the other two. The captain-general meant to flop at the largeft to vidlual and refrefh J ; but this was rendered im-poflible, as the iflanders came on board our {hips, and ftole, firft one thing and thenanother,' without our being able to prevent them. They invited us to take in ourfails and come on fhore, and even had the addrefs to fteal the fluff which hung afteraof our veffel. Exafperated at length, our captain landed with forty men, burntforty or fifty of their houfes, and feveral of their boats, and killed feven of the people.By a&ing thus he recovered his fluff; but he did not deem it prudent to flop anylonger after fuch afts of hoftility. We therefore continued our courfe in the famedirection as before.
On our entering the boats to land and punifh the iflanders, our fick people befoughtus, if any of them fhould chance to be killed, to bring them their inteftines, perfuadedthat they would foon effedt their cure.
When our people wounded any of the iflanders with their arrows, (of which weaponthey had no conception,) and chanced to pierce them through, the unfortunate fuf-ferers endeavoured to draw out thefe arrows from their bodies, now by one end, nowby another; after which they looked at them with aftonifhment, and fometimes died
does not mention having touched at the iflands, but that he coafted at a (hort diftance along them j that isto fay, what he fancied to be Cipangu and Sumbdit ; and which he might conceive the iflands he faw to be,from Marco Polo having publilhed that Cipangu was the molt eaftern ifland of the Indian feas ; and what heterms Cipangu being the firft he faw coming from the weft. On his return to Spain (book 4.], he fpeaksof Sumbdit-Pradit as an ifland fituate near the coaft of China .
* From thefe data it is that I have pointed out on the chart the run of the fquadron from the ftrait tothe Ladrones iflands. I drew a line in a dire&ion north-weft by weft from Cape Vitftory towards theequator. Afterwards, leaving the equator at one hundred and twenty-two degrees from the line of demar-cation, I traced a line to meet the former, running from north-weft to fouth-eaft, and forming with it anobtiife angle, where the fquadron changed its courfe. North of the equator I drew a line running weft-by-north, about eight hundred miles, to thirteen degrees oflatitude north, and thence to the Ladrones iflands.I am well aware that the degrees of longitude being inexaft, the reft muft be very uncertain ; but thecourfe traced prefents no difficulty, and feems to have a foundation. The track laid down as purfuedby Magellan by other geographers is purely ideal.
•j- Cape Cattigara, which our author terms Gatticara, was placed by Ptolemy in one hundred and eightydegrees of longitude from the Canary iflands, and fouth of the equator, but Magellan knew very well thatit wa3 on the north ; it is in fact in eight degrees twenty-feven minutes north : in confequence, before hereached this cape he imagined he muft fall in with the Molucca iflands. The modern name of this pointis Cape Camorin. Vefpucci was (fill more in error as to its latitude ; for he miftook for it a weftern capeof the continent, to which he gave this name. (Bartolozzi, loc. cit.)
J This ifland, at which Magellan touched, is probably the ifland Guahan which Maximilian the Tranfyl-vanian terms Ivagana. It may be the ifland Rota, on which George Menriquez, captain of a veffel in thefleet of Loaifa, (who in 1526 went from Peru to the Mariana Iflands,) found Gonfalvo de Vigo, one of thefailors of Magellan , who had voluntarily fettled here ; but again, this Vigo might have palled hither frontGuahan . (Debroffes, tom. i. p. 156.)
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