but with somewhat more severity than was becoming to a foreigner, especially to one holding command in a distant part of the world.  So they mutinied and took possession of one of the ships, and began to make preparations to return to Spain, but Magellan, with the rest of his men who had remained faithful to him, boarded that ship, and executed the ringleader and other leading mutineers, even some who could not legally be so treated:  for they were royal officials, who were only liable to capital punishment by the emperor and his council.  However under the circumstances no one ventured to resist.  Yet there were some, who whispered to one another, that Magellan would go on exercising the same severity amongst the Castilians, as long as one was left, until having got rid of everyone of them, he could sail home to his own country again with the few Portuguese he had with him.  The Castilians therefore remained still more hostile to the admiral.  As soon as Magellan observed that the weather was less stormy and that winter began to break up, he sailed out of St. Julian’s Bay on the twenty-fourth of August, 1520, as before.  For some days he coasted along to the southward and at last sighted a cape, which they called Cape Santa Cruz.  Here a storm from the east caught them, and one of the five ships was driven on shore and wrecked, but the crew and all goods on board were saved, except an African slave, who was drowned.  After this the coast seemed to stretch a little south eastwards, and as they continued to explore it, on the twenty-sixth of November [1520] an opening was observed having the appearance of a strait; Magellan at once sailed in with his whole fleet, and seeing several bays in various directions, directed three of the ships to cruise about to ascertain whether there was any way through, undertaking to wait for them five days at the entrance of the strait, so that they might report what success they had.  One of these ships was commanded by Alvaro de Mezquita, son of Magellan’s brother, and this by the windings of the channel came out again into the ocean whence it had set out.  When the Spaniards [225] saw that they were at a considerable distance from the other ships, they plotted among themselves to return home, and having put Alvaro their captain in irons, they sailed northwards, and at last reached the coast of Africa, and there took in provisions, and eight months after leaving the other ships they arrived in Spain, where they brought Alvaro to trial on the charge that it had chiefly been through his advice and persuasion that his uncle Magellan had adopted such severe measures against the Castilians.  Magellan waited some days over the appointed time for this ship, and meanwhile one ship had returned, and reported that they had found nothing but a shallow bay, and the shores stony and with high cliffs; but the other reported that the greatest bay had the appearance of a strait, as they had sailed on for three days and had found no