Ocean's Story; or, Triumphs of Thirty Centuries Maritime Adventures, Achievements, Explorations, Discoveries and Inventions; and of the Rise and Progress of Ship-Building and Ocean Navigation, from the Ark to the Iron Steamships

CHAPTER XXIV.--Discovery of the Philippines--The King of Zubu

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wishes the King of Spain to pay Tribute--He finally abandons the idea--A whole Island converted to Christianity--Magellan performs a Miracle--A Dumb Man recovers his Speech--Magellan invades a Refractory Island--His Death--Attempts to recover his Body--The Christian Island returns to Idolatry--The Ships arrive at Borneo--The Sailors drink too freely of Arrack--Festivities and Treachery--Vivid Imagination of Pigafetta--The Fleet arrives at the Moluccas--The King of Tidore--A Brisk Trade in Cloves--The Spice-Tariff--The Vittoria sails Homeward--Pigafetta is again imaginative--Arrival at the Cape Verds--Loss of One Day--Completion of the First Voyage of Circumnavigation--Pigafetta's Romance becomes Veritable History 236

SECTION IV.

FROM THE FIRST VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD TO THE DISCOVERY OF CAPE HORN: 1519-1616.