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Magellan ; he moreover threatened to have him beaten with rods, if he did not imme-diately go on fhore for the fervice of the fquadron.
The flave hereupon arofe, and feemed to hold no refentment for the reprimand andmenaces of the commander. On landing he repaired to the Chriftian King, whom hetold that we intended Ihortly to take our departure, and that, if his advice was taken,he might render himfelf mailer of all our veifels and merchandize. The King turneda favouring ear to his propofals, and conjointly they laid a plot againft us. The flavethen returned on board, and ihewed greater activity and more underflanding than wehad ever noticed in him before.
On the morning of Wednefday, i ft May, the Chriilian King fent to our two gover-nors, to inform them that he had prepared a prefent of precious (tones for the King ofSpain , and that he might deliver it into their hands, he begged them to come that dayand dine with him, and bring with them fome of their fuite. They accordingly went,taking with them our aftrologer, San Martino of Seville , and, of the different fhipscompanies, as many as made up twenty four for the entire number of the party. Iwas not one on the occafion, my face being fwollen by a wound I had received from apoifoned arrow on the forehead. Johan Carvajo and the provoil, fufpe&ing the In-dians of entertaining fome bad intentions, returned immediately to the fhips; it feemstheir fufpicions arofe from having feen the nobleman who had been miraculouflycured, feparate the almoner from the party.
Scarcely had they related thus much to us on board, ere we heard loud cries andmoans. Heaving anchor immediately, we laid the veffels clofe in with the fhore, andfired a number of (hot at the houfes. We then faw Juan Serano, whom they wereleading, wounded and tied hand and foot, towards the fhore. He entreated us to de-fift from firing, as otherwife, he faid, he fhould be maffacred. We enquired what hadbecome of his companions and the interpreter, and learned that the former had all beenMurdered, and that the interpreter had taken part with the natives. He conjured usto ranfom him with merchandize; but Johan Carvajo, though his fellow-goffip, joinedwith others in refilling to treat for his releafe, and would not allow any of our boats toa Pproach the fhore. The reafon for this condud of Carvajo was, in cafe of the death°f the two governors, the command of the fquadron devolved on himfelf. Juan Seranocontinued to implore the compaffion of his fellow-goffip, by alluring him he fhould beMaffacred the inftant we fet fail; and finding at length that all his entreaties were vain,he uttered deep imprecations, and appealed to the Almighty on the great day of judg-ment, to exaft account of his foul from Johan Carvajo, his fellow-goffip. He washowever difregarded; and we fet fail without ever hearing afterwards what became ofhim.
The ifland of Zubu is large; it has an excellent port, with two entrances to it, the°ne on the weft, the other on the north-eaft. It lies in ten degrees of latitude north,a nd in one hundred and fifty-four degrees of longitude from the line of demarcation,m this ifland it was, before the death of Magellan , that we obtained the firft intelli-gence refpecting the Molucca Iflands.
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