Show THE STRAITS OF MAGELLAN I Now No that the fleet of battleships has passed safe safely through though the Straits of Magellan an it may mar be just as well to state that there has been vastly too much said of the dangers of that feat No one was tas afraid that the Oregon would not make it safely on her record race for glory around from Seattle to inlet But when California drew the rush from froni 49 for half a dozen years rears a hundred old I wheel paddle-wheel steamers were sent around to the v t t i coast steamers of tons with horse power 1000 tons with power horse-power 2000 tons with power horse and the last one passed through those straits But the first safely man who ever eyer went t through the stra straits ts was an old Portuguese named Fernando de Magellan That was a good while ago He lie got through on the of November November No No- vember 1520 He Heas was tas as in the service of Charles V. V of Spain at the time He left Spain with five ships and men One ship returned to Spain so on the four remaining craft there were probably about men There was no steam in those days das His ships ma may have been a little better than those with which Columbus Columbus Co Co- Co- Co lumbus iambus discovered the new world but not much The whole tonnage may have been 00 Admiral Evans had men with him and th the power horse in his ships probably amounted to close upon and the tonnage to something over It was that same old Portuguese who named the ocean that he found at the western terminus of the straits the Pacific and we have ha never heard beard of a steamship meeting with a mishap there |