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Title: Heroes of discovery in America
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Morris, Charles, 1833-1922
Subjects: Explorers
Publisher: Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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y reached there after six months,where they excused themselves by lying about Magel-lan. For his part he did not know what had becomeof them, and, on emerging from the strait into theopen sea, he had a cross raised on the top of a highhill as a signal to the San Antonio if she shouldcome that way. The voyagers were at length afloat on the watersthey so long had desired to reach, the great oceanwhich Balboa had seen at the other extremity of SouthAmerica and named the South Sea. So mild andpleasant did it appear to Magellan, in contrast withthe fierce Atlantic storms they had encountered, thathe named it the Pacific Ocean, the name it still bears. So much had been done, but more and worse laybefore them. Hitherto much of their journey had beenover known waters, now they were afloat on an oceanon which sail had never been set, and of whose vast-ness they did not dream. Had they known what laybefore them even the iron-hearted Magellan mighthave turned back in dismay, But he headed north-
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IN AMERICA 65 ward to escape the wintry chill, and sailed steadilyinto the vast unknown, while months and monthspassed by and still the waves heaved and rolled aboutthem, and some of them began to think that mightyocean had no end. It was in October that they sailed through the moun-tain-bordered strait. Nearly three months passed be-fore they saw land again, and then it was only a littleislet in the unfathomable ocean. Eleven days morebrought them to another rocky isle, where there wasneither water nor food. They had already gone in thePacific twice as far as Columbus sailed after he leftthe Canaries, and they would have utterly despairedif they had known that five thousand miles were to bepassed before they would see land again. As they went on their sufferings were terrible.Their food was gone. Their water was unfit to drink.Magellans words came true, they were forced to eatthe leather off the ships yards. This they draggedthrough the sea with ropes for several days to softenit. Sc

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