CHAPTER XXIII.--Remarkable Foresight of the Court of Rome--A Papal

Bull--Ferdinand Magellan--He offers his Services to Spain--His Plans--His Fleet--Pigafetta the Historian--An Inauspicious Start--Teneriffe and its Legends--St. Elmo's Fire--The Crew make Famous Bargains with the Cannibals--Heavy Price paid for the King of Spades--Patagonian Giants--Pigafetta's Exaggerations--The Healing Art in Patagonia--The Tragedy of Port Julian--Discovery of a Strait--The Open Sea--Cape Deseado--The Ocean named Pacific--Ravages of the Scurvy--A Patagonian Paul--The Needle becomes Lethargic--Discovery of the Ladrones--The First Cocoanut--A Catholic Ceremony upon a Pagan Island 225