Identifier: lifeofferdinandm00guil (find matches)
Title: The life of Ferdinand Magellan and the first circumnavigation of the globe : 1480-1521
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Guillemard, F. H. H. (Francis Henry Hill), 1852-1933 Parr, Charles McKew donor Parr, Ruth, donor
Subjects: Magalhães, Fernão de, d. 1521 Voyages around the world
Publisher: London Liverpool : George Philip & Son
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Brandeis University Libraries

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recognised him as his sovereign,he should send himself. In spite of his humility ofspeech Almanzor was of kingly presence and bearing.Servants carrying golden vessels for water, betel, andother necessaries stood always in attendance, and hisson bore a sceptre before him. Under no conditionswould he bow or even incline his head, so that in enter-ing the cabin of the flagship he was obliged to do so bythe opening from the upper deck, so as not to stoop,which he would have been obliged to do had he enteredby the door from the waist of the ship. On the loth November, Carvalho and others wentashore, and after a long conversation with the king atreaty appears to have been signed,^ by which he acknow-ledged the sovereignty of Spain, He asked for the royalstandard and the emperors signature, and seeing theeagerness of the Spaniards to commence the lading oftheir ships, informed them that though he had not inTidor a sufficiency of cloves ready, he would himself go 1 Navarrete, vol. iv. p. 296,
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Illlllllllllllll 1621.) IN THE MOLUCCAS. 281 to the island of Batchian, where he trusted he shouldfind enough. Although Magellan was no longer with them, it maybe imagined that the Spaniards lost no time in makinginquiries for Francisco Serrao, his great friend and rela-tion, of whom they must have heard so much. He wasdead. The manner of his death was more or lessshrouded in mystery, but they learnt that it had takenplace seven or eight months previously, almost indeed atthe same time as that of their great commander. Hehad been captain-general of the King of Ternate whenthat monarch was at war with the Sultan of Tidor, andhaving succeeded in beating the latter in various engage-ments, he compelled him to give his daughter in marriageto the King of Ternate, and to send him many sons ofthe chiefs of Tidor as hostages. The King of Tidor neverforgave him, and Serrao having visited that island someyears later to trade in cloves, the king caused him tobe poisoned. 1 On Monday, November ii

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