The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines

CHAPTER I.

A STRANGE ROYAL ORDER.

I am to tell the story of a man who had faith in himself.

The clouds and the ocean bear his name. Lord Stanley has called him "the greatest of ancient and modern navigators."

That was a strange royal order, indeed, which Dom Manoel, King of Portugal, issued in the early part of the fifteenth century. It was in effect: &qu...