Excerpt from A Popular History of the Discovery of America From Columbus to Franklin, Vol. 1 Vasco da Gama sails round Africa (a.d. 149 7)-pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil (easter, 1500) - Francisco Serrano discovers the Moluccas (1511) - Juan Diaz de Solis discovers the River La Plata (1516) - Fernando de Magalhaes sails from San Lucar (2oth Sep tember, 1519) - Magellan winters in St. Julian's Harbour (april to August, 1520) - Magellan discovers the Patagonian Straits (2181: October, 1520) - Magellan sails across the South Sea (december, January, and February, 152 0-1521) - Magellan killed on the Island of Matan (27th April, 1521) - Sebastian del Cano returns to Spain with the Ship La Victoria (6th September, 1522) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.