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Why had he not confessed to him whence he had come, and who he was above all, at the moment when Magalhaes had place in his hand the hand of the daughter who would never have believed that he was the author of so frightful a crime. And now the noise outside became loud enough to attract the prisoner's attention.
In conformity with the opinion that it was allowable to fight with the inhabitants of this island if they refused food and would not make a true friendship and peace inasmuch as their chiefs had been baptized, and had afterward apostatized, and had treated Magalháes treacherously Legazpi, after meeting with expressions of hostility and defiance, sent a party ashore to take the island.
"You have made my fortune," he said, "and I shall not die in peace unless by this union I know that the fortune of my daughter is assured." "I can continue her devoted servant, her brother, her protector, without being her husband," Joam Garral had at first replied. "I owe you all, Magalhaes.
This man relates that after a year's captivity his master had taken him to Cebú, where he learned from the natives that they had sold to the Chinese the eight companions of Magalhães who were left on that island. The natives of Cebú "are idolaters, who at certain times sacrifice human beings to their god, whom they call Amito, and offer him to eat and to drink.
The accompanying illustration shows a dorsal view of the affected hand. Magalhaes of Rio Janeiro reports a very interesting case of elephantiasis of the scalp, representing dermatolysis, in which the fold of hypertrophied skin fell over the face like the hide of an elephant, somewhat similar in appearance to the "elephant-man." Elephantiasis of the face sometimes only attacks it on one side.
His intention had been to join a "seringal," or caoutchouc concern, in which in those days a good workman could earn from five to six piastres a day, and could hope to become a master if he had any luck; but Magalhaes very truly observed that if the pay was good, work was only found in the seringals at harvest time that is to say, during only a few months of the year and this would not constitute the permanent position that a young man ought to wish for.
That the descendants of Gamas, Cunhas, Magalhaes and Albuquerques men whose names were indelibly written upon the very face of the world should be passed over, whilst alien officers lead been brought in to train and command the Portuguese legions, was an affront to Portugal which Minas could never forgive.
There, hospitable as he was, like all the Portuguese of the old race, Magalhaes lived with his daughter Yaquita, who after the death of her mother had taken charge of his household. Magalhaes was an excellent worker, inured to fatigue, but lacking education.
For fifty years Padre Passanha had lived at Iquitos, in the mission of which he was the chief. He was loved by all, and worthily so. The Garral family held him in great esteem; it was he who had married the daughter of Farmer Magalhaes to the clerk who had been received at the fazenda.
MAGALHÃES, FERNÃO DE; generally known as Ferdinand Magellan.
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