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Excerpt from Magellan: Or the First Around the World
Magellan's own character is well fitted to call forth the young reader's admiration. It was his ambition, not to enter upon a career of blood-shed and conquest, nor, mainly, to acquire wealth, honors, or power for himself but to achieve for the civilized world the vast benefits which he knew would follow the discovery of a route around the American Continent, and to confer upon heathen barbarians the blessings of what he de voutly believed to be the true faith.
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