Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- VOYAGE TO THE STRAIT OF MAGELLAN BY THE CAPTAIN PEDRO SARMIENTO DE GAMBÓA, IN THE YEARS 1579 AND 1580, AND ACCOUNTS OF THE EXPEDITION
- I NARRATIVE AND ROUTE OF THE VOYAGE AND DISCOVERY OF THE STRAIT OF THE MOTHER OF GOD, FORMERLY CALLED “OF MAGELLAN”
- 1 Causes for sending the Expedition
- 2 The Voyage from Callao to the Gulf of Trinidad
- 3 Arrival in the Gulf of Trinidad
- 4 Narrative of the first Expedition of Discovery made by the General, with the Pilots Anton Pablos and Hernando Lamero, in the boat Nuestra Señora de Guia, up the Gulf of the Most Holy Trinity.
- 5 Second Voyage of Discovery in the boat Santiago
- 6 Third Voyage of Discovery, in the boat Nuestra Señora de Guia
- 7 Voyage to the Strait of Magellan—Desertion of the Almiranta
- 8 In the Strait of Magellan
- 9 The Voyage to Spain
- 10 Letter from the Viceroy of Peru, Don Francisco de Toledo, to the Governor of Rio de la Plata
- II RELATION OF WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ROYAL FLEET FOR THE STRAIT OF MAGELLAN
- III REPORT TOUCHING THE CAPTAINS AND SHIPS, MASTERS AND PILOTS
- IV CONCISE NARRATIVE BY PEDRO SARMIENTO DE GAMBÓA
- Index
- Index
- Plate section
8 - In the Strait of Magellan
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- VOYAGE TO THE STRAIT OF MAGELLAN BY THE CAPTAIN PEDRO SARMIENTO DE GAMBÓA, IN THE YEARS 1579 AND 1580, AND ACCOUNTS OF THE EXPEDITION
- I NARRATIVE AND ROUTE OF THE VOYAGE AND DISCOVERY OF THE STRAIT OF THE MOTHER OF GOD, FORMERLY CALLED “OF MAGELLAN”
- 1 Causes for sending the Expedition
- 2 The Voyage from Callao to the Gulf of Trinidad
- 3 Arrival in the Gulf of Trinidad
- 4 Narrative of the first Expedition of Discovery made by the General, with the Pilots Anton Pablos and Hernando Lamero, in the boat Nuestra Señora de Guia, up the Gulf of the Most Holy Trinity.
- 5 Second Voyage of Discovery in the boat Santiago
- 6 Third Voyage of Discovery, in the boat Nuestra Señora de Guia
- 7 Voyage to the Strait of Magellan—Desertion of the Almiranta
- 8 In the Strait of Magellan
- 9 The Voyage to Spain
- 10 Letter from the Viceroy of Peru, Don Francisco de Toledo, to the Governor of Rio de la Plata
- II RELATION OF WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ROYAL FLEET FOR THE STRAIT OF MAGELLAN
- III REPORT TOUCHING THE CAPTAINS AND SHIPS, MASTERS AND PILOTS
- IV CONCISE NARRATIVE BY PEDRO SARMIENTO DE GAMBÓA
- Index
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
On the 2nd of February, which was the feast of our Lady of La Calendaria, we got under weigh, and, in getting up one of the anchors, we carried away the cable. We made sail from the Port of Mercy to follow the channel S.E., and it came on to blow so hard from the north that we had to take in the main sail. As the day advanced it blew harder, and we got the boat inboard. At last, a little after noon, we reached the port which we had discovered the day before, and which the Captain-Superior named “Nuestra Senora de la Candelaria”. In coming to, the anchor fouled, and we let go another, which also fouled. In that instant the wind began to blow so furiously that two strands of the larger and lesser cables parted. In order that it might not carry away altogether, the pilot, Anton Pablos, slacked it off by hand, and buoyed it. The ship remained holding by a small hawser, of which two strands went, and only two remained sound, each one of the thickness of a man's thumb. These, with the help of the most sacred Virgin Mother of God, our Lady of Guadalupe, held the ship, so that it did not go broadside on to the rocks, in which case we should have been lost, a very large cable not having been able to hold us, which before and afterwards had held us in very heavy gales. We all looked upon it as a miracle that God and His most blessed Mother dealt thus with their sinful servants, who called upon them from their hearts, and saved them.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1895