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37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will find a way to the Spice Islands by South America or by the West, said Magellan to the ministers of the King,"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My countryman, said Gormez,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My friend, said he,"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "MAROONED."
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sir, said Magellan,"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain, you are my prisoner."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Unhand me--seize Magellan!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lead him to the stocks and secure him there,"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When we reach land Juan de Carthagena shall be marooned,"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will rescue them if ever I can, he thought."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This expedition is not for the glory of Portugal."
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We must get a new kind of lantern, said Magellan to his cousin,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have here a new farol, he continued, the men listening with intent ears."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here it is, and I wonder, my sailors, how far your e... |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All the ships must have these new farols, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Five lights, or more, that we have discovered land, when the flagship shall discharge a bombard. Follow my lantern always; you can trust it wherever it may fare. My farol shall be my st... |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "THE WONDERS OF NEW LANDS. --PIGAFETTA'S TALES OF HIS ADVENTURES WITH MAGELLAN.--THE STORY OF"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "THE FOUNTAIN TREE. --"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "ST. ELMO'S FIRE."
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He saw them indeed, and he painted them with his pen so vividly that they will always live. We get our first views of the strange inhabitants of the Southern regions of the New World from him. We are to follow his narratives, as printed for the Hakluyt Society, London, making so... |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We came to Canaria (Canaries)."
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The people of the island come to drink of the water. The animals and the birds refresh themselves there."
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Monday, the 3d of October, says the interesting Italian,"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As soon as this light had departed the sea grew calmer and the wings of divers kinds of birds appeared."
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We do not clearly understand how this painting"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The natives, says Pigafetta,"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They come from Heaven,"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This, says our Italian,"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some of these people, says our Italian chronicler,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They sleep on cotton nets, which are fastened on large timbers, and stretch from one end of the house to another."
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "These are not made with iron instruments, for there are none, but with stones."
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They do not eat up the whole body of a man whom they take prisoner; they eat him bit by bit, and for fear that he should be spoiled, they cut him up into pieces, which they set to dry before the chimney. They eat this day by day, so as to keep in mind the memory of their enemy."... |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain General, it hurts my soul to say it, but there is disloyalty on the ships--it is everywhere."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I seem to feel the atmospheres of it, said Magellan."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why should it be? The sea and the sky... |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We do not know where we are going, and wherever we are going, we are Portuguese and are slaves to Spain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, ay, returned an old Portuguese sailor,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Right,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"va... |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The lively Knight of Rhodes informs us that this man, who towered above his fellows,"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They did more in one step than we could do at a bound,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Canibali"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "These islands, says our good Knight Pigafetta,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He adds:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We loaded five ships with them for an hour."
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If these animals could run they would be very bad and cruel, but they do not stir from the waters, and swim and live upon fish."
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One day, without any one's expecting it, we saw a giant who was on the shore of the sea, quite naked, and was dancing and leaping and singing, and, while singing, he put sand and dust on his head."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go and meet him. He dances and sings as... |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you come down from Heaven?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He was so tall, says our descriptive Knight,"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When he was brought before the Captain, he had thrown over him the skin of a certain beast, which skin was very carefully sewed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This beast has its head and ears of the size of a mule, and the neck and body of the fashion of a camel, th... |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then the crew began to show him some of the presents they had brought, among them a looking-glass."
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When the Captain General came to know of it, he sent to fetch him with his ship's boat, and brought him to one of the little islands in the port. This giant was of a better disposition than the other, and was a gracious and amiable person, he loved to dance and leap. When he lea... |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now show them the iron fetters."
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nevertheless when they saw the trick which had been played on them they began to be enraged, and to foam like bulls, crying out to the _devil_ to help them."
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The hands of the other two giants were bound, says the original narrative,"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and that the men"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When one of them dies, says our Knight,"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Admiral is a native of Portugal, said they,"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Turn south,"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Comrades, my course was laid down by Cæsar (the King) himself. I--will--not--depart--from--it--in--any--degree. I will open to Cæsar an unknown world."
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are leading us to destruction,"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Three crews are ready to mutiny, to force you to go back."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Constable, he said,"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Back to your own ship, said the mutineer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I command the Victoria."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But we are few against many, said the constable,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I arrest you in the name of the E... |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is the last bread they will ever eat,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And the last wine that they will ever drink,"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They were cast aside for opposing a madman, reasoned Gormez."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Magellan is no fit leader of an expedition. If I had full command of the Antonio, I would rescue the inspector, if I were to find him alive."
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are rushing on to ruin, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can take you back to Spain. Put Mesquita in irons, and let us return. Mesquita advised Magellan to execute our comrades!"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tierra del Fuego --the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Land of Fire,"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She has deserted us,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, reasoned the Admiral."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mesquita would never desert me."
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "THE ADMIRAL WAS MAD!"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We must not leave them to perish,"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Admiral has gone mad, said the men who had come to rescue them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He knows not the way to the Moluccas, nor to anywhere."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To Spain, was the answer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ... |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His cousin, Mesquita, our captain, advised these crimes, and so we put him in irons, and have brought him back to receive justice in Spain."
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have been made a prisoner by treachery, he said to a few men."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I believe that the day of my vindication will one day dawn."
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Admiral was mad!"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Magellan is not mad. He executed those who had planned to murder him. He had to put to death these men for the sake of the expedition. He will return again!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will Magellan ever return again? Such usually received the answer,"
},
{
... |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Virgins,"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Pacific!"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gentle Star of Ocean! Portal of the sky! Ever Virgin Mother Of the Lord most high!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wednesday, the 20th of November, 1520, says the original narrative,"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We only ate old biscuit reduced to powder, and full of grubs, and we drank water that had turned yellow and smelled."
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Capac."
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Her-dem"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Holi"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ohone,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Setebos,"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do not make the Cross again, else Setebos will enter into you and kill you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bring me the Cross,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Make me a Christian,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Paul,"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let no one move or speak,"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Friday, the 22d of March, the above-mentioned people, who had promised to return, came about midday with two boats laden with the said fruit, cochi, sweet oranges, a vessel of palm wine, and a cock, to give us to understand that they had poultry in their country."
},
{
"... |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This was done, and when his people returned to the boat, he went away at once. The Captain made a good entertainment to the men who came to his ship, and gave them all sorts of things, on which account the King wished to give the Captain a rather large bar of solid gold, and a c... |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After that the Captain showed him a great number of swords, cuirasses, and helmets, and made two of the men play with their swords before the King; he then showed him the sea chart and the ship compass, and informed him how he had found a strait, and of the time which he had spe... |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When the hour for supper had come, they brought two large China dishes, one of which was full of rice, and the other of pig's flesh, with its broth and sauce. We supped with the same signs and ceremonies, and then went to the King's palace, which was made and built like a hay gr... |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At our landing the two Kings of the islands were there, and received the Captain in a friendly manner, and placed him between them, and then we went to the place prepared for saying mass, which was not far from the shore."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Before the mas... |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This kind of people are gentle, and go naked, and are painted. They wear a piece of cloth made from a tree, like a linen cloth, round their body to cover their natural parts; they are great drinkers. The women are dressed in tree cloth from their waists downward; their hair is b... |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "From this island of Mazzubua to that of Satighan there are twenty leagues, and on leaving Satighan we went by the west; but the King of Mazzubua could not follow us; therefore we waited for him near three islands; that is to say, Polo, Ticobon, and Pozzon. When the King arrived ... |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My master is the greatest King in all the world. We are sailing at his command to discover the Spice Islands. But we have heard of your fame, and the fame of your country, and have come to visit you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are welcome, said the King,"
}... |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He told them how God had made Heaven and earth and all other things in the world, and that he had commanded that every one should render honor and obedience to his father and mother, and that whoever did otherwise was condemned to eternal fire."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"... |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He was eating tortoise eggs in two china dishes, and he had four vessels full of palm wine, which he drank with a cane pipe. We made our obeisance, and presented to him what the Captain had sent him, and told him, through the interpreter that the present _was not as a return for... |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To that the King and all his people answered that they would obey the commands of the Captain and do all that he told them. The Captain took the King by the hand, and they walked about on the scaffolding, and when he was baptized he said that he would name him Don Charles, as th... |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That day we baptised eight hundred persons of men, women, and children. The Queen was young and handsome, covered with a black and white sheet; she had the mouth and nails very red, and wore on her head a large hat made of leaves of palm, with a crown over it made of the same le... |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Crazy Jane,"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You do well, said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Put it in the place where your idols were; it will keep in your mind the Son of God."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will cherish it forever,"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I swear, he said,"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Padre, he said,"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I can overthrow Silapalapa, ran the Matan chief's message,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will not send another on this expedition so full of peril, he thought."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will lead it myself."
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go to the natives, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go tell your master, they said,"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One of his principal virtues was constancy in the most adverse fortune."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was God who made me the messenger of the new heavens and new earth, and told me where to find them, said Columbus."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "M... |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is the bird of Paradise,"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They do not need feet; they never alight on the ground."
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One produces cloves, another nutmegs, and another cinnamon. All are near to each other, but small and rather narrow."
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Araby the Blessed"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The kings of Marmin began to believe that souls were immortal a few years ago, induced by no other argument than that they saw that a certain most beautiful small bird never rested upon the ground nor upon anything that grew upon it; but they sometimes saw it fall dead upon the ... |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Having said this, the King, laying aside his crown, embraced them one by one, and ordered whatever food that land afforded to be brought. Our men being overjoyed at this, returned to their comrades, and told them what had happened. They, pleased above measure with the friendly b... |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The pointed part of the clove is fixed at the extreme end of the branch, and then growing slightly longer, it forms a spike. It is at first red, but soon gets black by the heat of the sun. The natives keep the plantations of these trees separate, as we do our vines. They bury th... |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Frightened by the strangeness of this behavior, they started straight for Spain, leaving their shipmates behind them. And so, in the sixteenth month after leaving Thedori, they arrived safe and sound on the 6th of September, at the port near Hispalis (Seville). Worthier, indeed,... |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Padre, they do well to prolong my life. Some day my prison doors will open wide, and I shall ride through the streets of Seville, and those who doubt me now will hail me as a heart that, was always true to a Knight whose heart will be found true to the Emperor!"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cæsar"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cæsar"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where is the lantern of Magellan now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Star of the Deep."
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That done the old women took off their robes and ate what was in the two dishes, inviting only women to join them. After that they get the hair off the pig with fire. Only old women are able to consecrate the boar, and this animal is never eaten unless it is killed in this manne... |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The palace contains seventy-nine halls, in which dwell only the ladies destined to serve the King; there are always torches burning there. It is not possible to go round the palace in less than a day. In the upper part of it are four halls where the ministers go to speak to the ... |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have _seen_ the great bird with my own eyes!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One of the birds was once captured, and sent as a present to the King of Siam!"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here must be my home,"
}
] |
37814 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have seen the bird myself,"
}
] |
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