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10. into the great one of Borneo , where theyThey arrive made some short Stay, being friendly re-at Borneo ; reived. However, before their Depar-ture, they were attacked, on the ninthof July, by a Hundred Prows andJunks , of which they took sour, and inthem the Son of the King of Lozon. De-parting thence, with the Assistance ofIndian- Pilots, they arrived , at length,Anil the at the Moluccos, on the eighth of Novem-Moluccos. her, 1521. in the seven and twentiethMonth after their Departure from Spain,and anchored in the Port of Tidore, oneof the chief of those Islands, wherethey were lovingly treated by theKing,who concluded a Peace, and took anOath ever to continue in Amity with theKing of Spain. Here they traded forCloves, exchanging the Commoditiesthey brought, to their own Content.They leave When they were to depart, findinganother Ship one of the Ships leaky, and unfit forbehind them. f c long a Voyage, they left her behindto refit, in the Island of Mare, andthen failed with all Expedition forSpain.
The Ship they failed with, calledthe ViSlory, commanded by John Se-bastian Cano, and carrying six andforty Spaniards, and thirteen Indians,The remain- took it’s Course to the South-weft,1 parts 3 ffr ^ anc * coming to the Island Maha ,Spain. near that of Timor, in a eleven De-rees of South- Latitude, staid therefteen Days, to stop some Leaks theydiscovered in her. On the five andtwentieth of January, 1522. they leftthis Place, and the next Day touchedat Timor, from whence they aid not de-part till the eleventh of February, whenthey took their way to the Southward,resolving to leave all India, and theIslands, to the Northward, to avoidmeeting the Portuguese, who werepowerful in those Seas, and would ob-struct their Passage. They run, there-fore, into forty Degrees of South- Lati-tude before they doubled the Cape ofGood-Hope , about which they spent se-ven Weeks, beating it out against con-trary Winds. So that their Provisionsbegan to fail, and many Men grew sick,which made some entertain Thoughtsof turning back to Mozambique, _ but o-thers opposed it. In fine, after twoMonths more Hardships, in which theylost one and twenty or their Company,they were forced to put into the Islandof St. James, being one of those of Ca-bo-Vsrde, belonging to the King of Por-tugal, where with much Entreaty, theyobtained some small Relief of Provisions;
But thirteen of them, going on Shoar, JM9'again , for some Rice the Portu-guese had promised to supply themwith , were detained on Shoar,which made those who were left onBoard the Ship hoise Sail, and put toSea, fearing the like Treachery mightsurprize them, and, on the seventh of j n g asr ytiSeptember, arrived safe at St, Lucar, be- at s t> Luca^low the City of Semi, where after fir-ing all their Guns for Joy, they repair-ed to the great Church, in their Shirts,and barefoot, to return thanks toGoD.
The Ship, which performed thiswonderful Voyage, was called the Vic-tory, as was said before ; the Comman-ders’s Name-was John Sebastian Cano,who was well rewarded and honouredby the Emperour. This was the firstVoyage round the World, and this Dis-covery of the Streight of Magellan itwas which made it practicable. Theother Spanis) Ship which was left at theMolluccos to stop her Leaks, attemptedto return the Way it came to PanamaBut after struggling above four Monthswith the Eaferly Winds, most of theMen dying, and the Rest being almoststarved, it went back to the Moluccos, 0
where it was taken by the Portuguese ; s ^I e ta le9and the few Men that survived, after be* by the P° s 'ing kept two Years in India, were sent tuguese.to Spain, in the Portuguese Ships.
In the Month of May, of the Year J 5 2 °'following, the Emperour Charles V.honourecl England with his Presence,and had an Interview with the King andQueen at Canterbury : On the thirtiethof the same Month, the King went overto Calais, and on the seventh of June,was the famous meeting of the two Kingsof England and France, between Ardresand Guijhes, for it’s Splendour calledthe Asembly of the Cloth of Gold. ThisAssembly lasted till the four and twen-tieth of June : And on the tenth of JulyHenry paid a Visit to the Emperour atGraveling, and soon after returned toEngland.
A short Account of the Manner of The iffthis Meeting, between the two Kings of A ^ ofEngland and France, may not be unac- Gold.ceptable to the Reader; King Henry Herbert'caused a Building, of three Hundredand eight and twenty Foot .Square, tobe erected, from which there was aPassage, by a private Gallery, to theCastle of Guisnes. This great Building: ™ Cia] ly framed in England, insuch Manner as to be taken in Pieces,and brought Home again ; And LordHerben fays there was a Model of it,
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