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The first voyage round the world, by Magellan

Note 15 — INTRODUCTION AND LIFE OF MAGELLAN.

Henry Edward John Stanley Stanley translation

This contemporary document confirms Osorio as to the cause of Magellan’s being disgusted with the King of Portugal; some historians have represented the quarrel as arising from a distribution of plundered cattle. Gaspar Correa uses a similar phrase to that in this despatch, “a hundred reis, more or less”.

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