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INTERESTING LECTURE ON THEIR DISCOVERY,
MALACCA IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
A large audience gathored at the Colombo Museum on July 10, to hear the Hon. Sir Hugh Clifford, K.C.M.G., de. liver a lecture entitled "Ferdinand Magellan and the wonderful voyage." Sir Stanley Bois presided.
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a map of the world, which was of con- siderable assistance in following the lectare. In his introductory remarks he said that Fordinand Magellan's name was a household word. He was known to lame as the first circumnavigator of the world, yet he never sailed round it. He was a funatical Catholic and lost his life through imprudent and excessive zeal for the spread of the faith. But he was the first man to expose the futility
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Portuguese by birth, he worked and fought for the King of Portugal for many years in the East and Northern Africa He it was who showed the Spaniards, who were the arch-rivals of the Portuguese, how to break up the monopoly of the trade of the Moluccas which Portugal had for years enjoyed, excommunica without running the risk of tion. He was 62 years old when he died, but the achievements which made his name immortal wore crowded into the He last seventeen months of his life. was born at Villa de Sabroza in the district of Villa Real, Traz os Montes, and came of a noble and knightly family He spent his boyhood in the household of Queen Leonors, consort of King John 11 of Portugal. It was not known pre- cisely when he went to the East, but he was at Cochin, in Southern India, as an adherent of Alfonso Dalboquerque, when, late in 1508, Diogo Lopez de Siquiera arrived at that port with a fleet of four ships which had been specially scut out from Portugal to "conquer and explore Malaces. A great rivalry existed be tween Dom Francisco d'Almeida and Alfonso Dalboqparque over the Governor- ship of Portuguese India. The dispute ron high and a number of Dalboquerque's adherents were of opinion he should assert his right by force. When Biquiera arrived it was suggested he should take over the Viceroyalty, but he refused, Ultimately Dalbognerque suceceded in winning his point, but in order to save an immediate outbreak of hostilitics the more turbulent leaders with him to Malacca-among them Magellan.
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"Concepcion," 90 tons, crew 44; "Vic-kepe Magellan's body, refusing to give it
up as they wanted to keep it as memorial: toria," 85 tons, crew 44; and "Santiago," The best comparison, 75 tons, crew 31.
said Sir Hugh, that he could give was that the little tags that pushed the mail boats atout in the harbour were 500 tons each-about 5 times the size of the Trinidad." The coal lighters were 40 tons each; half as big as the smallest of Magellan's feet. They therefore realised it was a considerable enterprise for ships of that description to start on a voyage without knowing anything about their destination, which was kept a secret. Of the 237 men only 37 were Portuguese, One was an Englishman, Master Martin, of Bristol. It was said that the captains hated Magellan, probably because he was thay Spaniards, B Portuguese and
deal to contend
Through the treachery of Henrique de Malaces some more men were lost and the fleet sailed' away, the "Concepcion ? having to be burnt, as there were too few
men to work her. The "Trinidad" and tho Victoria thus continued the voy- age. They reached Mindanao, Pelawan Eventually they and Brunei in turn, anchored at Tidor in the Moluccas and the two ships were loaded with cloves. They started on Wednesday, December 18th, but the Trinidad had to be carcened, as she sprang a bad leak. The "Victoria" got away, however, though many men decided to fall behind, as they feared the ship would not last out to Spain. The Trinidad" was ultimately captured by
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The "Victoria" went southward and TWO WOMEN TELL THEIR doubled the Cape on May eth, and on July 9th arrived at Cape Verde. They and were told that the day was Thursday the date the 9th, but Pigafetta, who had BOTH HAD INDIGESTION, kept a careful count of the days, made it out to be Wednesday, July 8th. That was the first time it was demonstrated that by sailing round the world from weat to east they could actually lose count of one day.
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with besides the and the fury of the seas. They sailed for Teneriffe and southward along the At the time Malacca was the great em- coast of Guines, where they encountered porium from which was distributed the stormy weather. They succeedled in cross- whole of the apics trade of the Malay ing the line, and thence sailed diagonally Archipelago. The place was of very con-. across the Atlantic to a point on the coast siderable importance far greater than of Brazil-Verzin: Mutiny had already
MOTHER SEIGEL'S SYRUP at the present day. It was the capital broken out amongst the crews and the showed sign of in- of South-Western Asia. On arrival there San Antonio'
QURED THEM. arrangements after a time became ex-subordination. Magellan hard to arrest tremely strained between the Sultan and the captain, and placed the second-in-
HEADACHES, FLATULENCE, PALPITATION, the people who had landed to trade with command in charge. They sailed further the natives. One night a Javanese girl south and put in at a port which they
On Saturday, September
SLEEPLESSNESS, WEAKNES. swam off to Siquiers's ship and warned named St. Julian, where they determined
ALL GONE NOW! one of the company said to be Magellan to winter. There a mutiny broke out in 6th, 1522, they entered the Bay of San Lucas with only 18 men-all that were -that treachery was being meditated by good earnest.
left of the 30 or more who left the This is not "mero neighbourly gossip" the Sultan. It was arranged that they
Sir Hugh then read a long account by Molucens. On Monday, September 8th, The two women who tell the following should go ashore to banquet and then all be murdered.
Siquiers did not go Navarete of the mutiny, showing how they cast anchor at the Quay of Seville, stories of their ailments and sufferings, 20 Portuguese Magellan quelled it by taking very severe having been away for a period of three and of their happiness at being relieved and ultimately some factors were seized by the Sultan and measures, including the murdering of years and five months, less two days. Of and cured, at last, are living as far apart shot. Siquiera made no attempt at several men and having the body of one the 237 men who went upon the voyage as Cape Town and the Transvaal. rescue, but sailed away in a great hurry man quartered, and other men marooned, only 18 returned, and only five returned bring them together here to show that, and burnt one of his ships because he had They also discovered the Patagonians, Jater. The 18 who returned, when they wherever people may be, they can find too few men to work it. He sailed back who were described as men of giant dropped anchor off the Quay of Seville, relief from all digestive disorders, in to Portugal taking Magellan with him. stature, being so tall that we only reach were all dressed in sack-cloth and ashes, Mother Seigel's Syrup. It is prepared to
By a trick, two of and with candles in their hands they cure all such maladies and it does it. In March, 1810, Diogo Mendez de Vasconed to their waists.
Writing on March 14th, 1912, from 5, cedos was sent out with four ships to them were captured, The savages fell in walked bare-footed through the streets in avenge the insult to the King of love with handcuffs! In Eden's "Decades procession to the Cathedral of the town, Turf Club Btreet, Turf-fontein, Trans- Portugal. They went to a place called of the New World" Calibay invoked there to give thanks to their saints for ygal, Mrs. J. D. Van Dyk sa75 At Gos, where they found Dalboquerque, Setebos, the Patagonians' God, and Cali-baring brought them through such a. then the Viceroy of the Indies, engaged ban was Shakespeare's conception of the wonderful enterprise. in an extremely force fight with the na savages of the New World, tives of the place. Dalboquerque insisted Eventually the fleet came to the Straits
at the ships should assist him, and ultimately Goa fell. Gon was perhaps of Magellan and they were explored. better known to fame to-day by the fact The San Antonio took the oppor- that it gladdened our morning breakfast tunity to flee back to Spain, apparently table with copies of the Morning not having been satisfied with the treat- Leader." (Laughter.) Dalboquerque ment they had received when they at- then went to Malacca, but on his way tempted to mutiny. Having gone there did what was usual in those days through the Straits, Magellan's feet-the had been wrecked and lost Santiago captured, between Ceylon and Malacca and Sumatra, Give inoffensive merchant while exploring-entered the Pacific and vessels who were trading in the vicinity several months.
sailed on a north-westerly direction for The chronicler gave Arrived at Malacca, Magellan was with him,
Fruit-growing in Tasmania is steadily Dalboquerque-after the Sultan a harrowing description of this part of They ate biscuits full of the voyage. wanted to make a treaty of peace-attack- ed Malacca and it fell at the second as-
worms,
drank yellow water that was expanding. It will not be long before putrid, ste ox-hides which had covered there are 30,000 acres of apple orchards sault. for a term of years and then they heard from the board. Rats were sold for one ages a yield of 100 bushels to the acre listen to what another former sufferer,
Magellan apparently lived in Malacca the top of the main yard and sawdust in the island, and if this area only aver. of him returning to Portugal and fight half ducat spicce, and even then they the result will be three million bushels
That, very imperfectly concluded Bir Hugh, is the story of Magellan's voyage, and 1 can only thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for the attention you have given me.
(Loud applause,)
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Опв "Of course I declined in health. day a neighbour advised me to see what Mother Seigel's Sprup could do. I took her advice and took the Syrup. It soon brought relief from pain I recovered strength and appetite and was soon in the best of health. I have had no return of the ailments.”
THE RETURN TO HEALTH. There you hear from the North-now The fruit industry in the in the South, says. Mrs. J. Winter, 27,
(laughter)-went across to Spain and Hormally renauuced his
nationality, placing his services at the disposal of King Charles King Manuel sent urgent messages entreating him to return, but Magellan refused. He had been made Knight of he Order of Santiago and it thus fell about that some one, for the firstegiance to the King of Spain, and the it possible for the settler with limited I found great relief and after that my
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Con-of both the lower and upper teeth of refused an some of the men swelled, so that they general commercial prosperity of recent on April 10th, 1912, saying:Early in trary to expectations the application for an increase of pay it could not eat under any circumstances Years, and it has enabled numerous per-life I suffered constantly from irregularity was one of those unfortunate applications and died. At last they came to the Un.sons who had a struggling beginning to of the bowels and weak stomach. My frequent attacks of biliousness and head- which it was impossible to grant fortunate Islands-so named because they attain to positions, if not of wealth, at digestive organs were run down; 1 had (Laughter.) Magellan, instead of taking were found to be deserts and then to least of comfort.
This year has been a record. Twenty- aches and became weak, lost flesh, and it in the philosophical way in which they the Ladrones so called because the Is- were expected to accept the inevitable lauders pillaged Magellan's men. They one great mail steamers have made the was almost a helpless invalid. My nights were restless, through pains about my passed other islands and at Cebu were apple trip" before starting Home for refusal to an impossible request hospitably received by the antives on London. The total Oversea export was body, and by day I was drowsy and April 7th, 1691 Magellan's Malay slave, over 915,000 cases of apples, 68,000 of defected. Though I look many tonies and Henrique de Malacca, could make him which were for the United Kingdom; and strengthening medicines they gave me no self understood in the Philippines and this total beat that of last year by nearly real relief:
"On a friend's advice I began taking theological discussions took place be- 180,000 cases, tween Magellan, who was a nost zealous
There is ample land in Tasmania avail- Mother Seigel's Syrup and the result was Christian, and whose principal desireable at a sufficiently low price to render all I could desire. From the first bottle was to make all whom he met swear
progress to health was rapid. In a few Crown land is to weeks I was happy to find I was com- King of the natives. Eventually all the capital and the necessary experience to persous of Cebu and some from other prosper on the soil.
be had at 10s. an acre. The cost of fene pletely cured and fast regaining my islands were baptized. But one man, a brother of the prince, was sick and ing varies from Bs. 9d. a chain accord strength. Since then an occasional dose Magellan said if he was baptized he
ing to the class of wire and material used. has kept me in the best of fealth."
Both of these writers were afflicted with Clearing varies from £5 to £20 per acre, would become well. A procession Was Magellan had himself doubled the Cape made to the sick man's house and the ploughing from 158. to £1 per acre, trees severe Indigestion in a form that afflicts chronicler said he and his two wives and cost. 70s. per hundred, planting is an thousands. Their stomachs got out of of Good Hope at least four times and he now learned, placed as he was in posten girls were duly baptised. Magellan acre, cost of cultivation on small areas order and did not get the assistance they needed to put them right. So, of course, session of Spanish records, of the great asked her how he felt and he spoke in 20s. per acre yearly. Pacific which had been discovered by mcdiately, saying by the Grace of Our
The result was An orchard begins to give returns in they became worse, as they always do Lord he felt very well! (Laughter.) the fifth year after planting if the man when neglected. Balbos. Accordingly Magellan proposed he should be placed in command of a feet Before five days the sick man could walk ngement is good. Orchard property may clogging-up and stagnation of the whole and should be allowed to seek the strait On Friday, April 26th, Magellan went be purchased from £60 or blocks three system at the end of the South American Co would not obey the King of Spain, and in full bearing. Areas of land already
with a party to punish one chief who years of age up to £100 per sore for trees followed.
CURES CHRONIC WEAKNESIZAD Mother Seigel's Syrup contains a com- tinent and thence to sail to the Moluccas by & western route. The King death.
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killed our mirror, our light, our com- should not be less than £30 per acre, but fies the blood and restores good health.
time, in full possession of the Portuguese secrets with regard to the East, was able to collate them with the secrets as care- fully guarded which the Portuguese had with regard to the West.
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