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Title: Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ...
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Goodrich, Frank B. (Frank Boott), 1826-1894
Subjects: Discoveries in geography Voyages and travels
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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d a fresh-water river, which he named Santa Cruz, inhonor of the anniversary of the exaltation of the cross. Herethe crew, by Magellans order, made confession and received theholy communion. On the 21st of October, Magellan made the great discoverywhich has immortalized his name. He reached a strait commu-nicating between the Atlantic Ocean and the South Sea: con-sulting the calendar for a name, he called it in honor of theday, the Strait of the Eleven Thousand Virgins. It is nowMagellans Strait. It was enclosed between lofty mountainscovered with snow; the water was so deep that it afforded noanchorage. The crew were so fully persuaded that it possessed 216 MAN UPON THE SEA. no western outlet, that, had it not been for Magellans confidenceand persistence, they would never have ventured to explore it.The strait was found to vary in breadth from one mile to ten,and to be four hundred and forty miles in length. During thefirst night spent in the strait, the Santo Antonio, piloted by one
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CAPE VIRGIN—THE EAST ENTRANCE OF MAGELLANS STRAIT. Emmanuel Gomez, who hated Magellan, found her way backinto the Atlantic, and returned at once to Spain. The pilotsobject was principally to be the first to tell the news of the dis-covery, and to carry to Europe a specimen of a Patagoniangiant, one of whom he had on board of his vessel. On his wayhe stopped at Port Julian and took up two of the conspiratorswho had been abandoned there. The Patagonian was unable tobear the change of climate, and died of the heat on crossing theline. One of Magellans remaining four vessels was sent on inadvance of the others to reconnoitre a cape which seemed toterminate the channel. The vessel returned, announcing thatthe strait indeed terminated at this cape and that beyond lay MAN UPON THE SEA. 217 the open sea. We wept for joy, says Pigafetta: the cape wasdenominated Cabo Deseado,—Wished-for Cape,—for in goodtruth we had long wished to see it. The sight gave Magellanthe most unbounded joy, for

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