2007-01-07 01:17:42 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
This is an eye witness account from one of his crew,
An Indian hurled a bamboo spear into the captain's face, but the latter immediately killed him with his lance, which he left in the Indian's body. Then, trying to lay hand on sword, he could draw it out but halfway, because he had been wounded in the arm with a bamboo spear. When the natives saw that, they all hurled themselves upon him. One of them wounded him on the left leg with a large cutlass, which resembles a scimitar, only being larger. That caused the captain to fall face downward, when immediately they rushed upon him with iron and bamboo spears and with their cutlasses, until they killed our mirror, our light, our comfort, and our true guide. When they wounded him, he turned back many times to see whether we were all in the boats. Thereupon, beholding him dead, we, wounded, retreated, as best we could, to the boats, which were already pulling off
2007-01-07 01:55:38 · answer #1 · answered by the_lipsiot 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People believe that Ferdinand Magellan was killed by wild natives on an island in the Pacific. I think he was shot in the eye with an arrow or something like that.
2007-01-07 09:28:12 · answer #2 · answered by Gettysburg Ghost 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋