380 pigafetta’s voyage round the world.

but to effeft this we were forced to approach within five leagues of it, as otherwife, fromthe conftancy of weft winds, we could never have effected this end *.

We afterwards fteered north-weft for two whole months together, (the months ofMay and June) without any reft, and in this interval loft twenty-one men, includingIndians. We made a Angular obfervation on throwing them into the fea ; the corpfesof the Chriftians floated with the face towards heaven, but thofe of the Indians withthe face downwards.

We were now almoft wholly deftitute of provjfions, and had not heaven favoured uswith fine weather, we lhould all have perilhed with hunger. On the 9th of July, on aWednefday, we diftinguifhed Cape Verd Iflands, and anchored off that called Sant Jago.

As we knew we were in an inimical country, and expected we might excite fufpicion,we had the precaution of enjoining the men in the long boat, whom we fent on fhorefor provifions, to fay that we had touched at this port on account of our foremaft beingfplit on crofling the line, which occafioned us to lofe fo much time, that the captain-general, with two other vefiels, had continued his courfe to Spain without us. We more-over fpoke in fuch manner as to caufe them to imagine we came from the fhores ofAmerica, and not from the Cape of Good Hope . We obtained credit, and our long-boat was twice laden from fhore with rice, in exchange for different merchandize.

In order that we might difcover if our journals had been regularly kept, we enquiredon fhore what day it was, and was anfwered Thurfday ; this occafioned us much fur-prife as, according to our journals, it appeared to be Wednefday. We could not befatisfied of having loft a day j and for my part I was ftill more aftonifhed at the circum-ftance than the reft, for I had enjoyed fo perfect a ftate of health as to be able, with-out interruption, to mark the days of the week, and the months. We afterwardsfound that there was no miftake in our calculation; fince, having conftantly travelledweftward and followed the courfe of the fun, on our return to where we departed fromwe ought naturally to have gained twenty-four hours on thofe who remained on thefpot; this, to be convinced of, requires but a moment’s refleftion.

The long-boat on its third trip, we perceived, was detained, and we had reafon tofufpett by the movements of certain caravellas, that a defign was meditated againft ourfhip; in confequence, we refolved on immediate flight. We afterwards were informedthat it had been flopped on account of one of the failors having divulged our fecret, byrelating that the captain-general was dead, and that our fhip was the only one of thefquadron of Magellan which had returned to Europe .

Thanks to Providence, on Saturday, 6th September, we entered the bay of SanLucar ; and of fixty men of which our crew confifted on our leaving the MaluchoIflands, but eighteen remained, moft of whom were fick. The refidue had either ranaway from the fhip at the ifland of Timor, had for different crimes there been punifhedwith death, had died of hunger, or become prifoners to the Portuguefe at Sant Jago.

From our departure from the bay of San Lucar to the day of our return, wereckoned to have failed upwards of fourteen thoufand fix hundred leagues, having cir-cumnavigated the globe from eaft to weft.

On Monday, 8th September, 1522, we caft anchor near the Mole of Seville , andfired the whole of our artillery.

On Tuefday, we repaired in our fhirts, barefooted, and carrying a taper in our hands,to the church of our Lady of Vi&ory, and to that of Sta. Maria de Antigua, as wehad vowed to do in the hour of danger.

* The fame occurred to Captains Dixon and Landsdown, (Dixon’s Voyage.)

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