As the day was Easter Sunday, which the Spaniards call Pascua (pas'-coo-ah) Florida, he called the country Florida.
[Illustration: Map of 1515][1] [Footnote 1: Showing what was then supposed to be the shape and position of the newly discovered lands.] Six years later (1519) Pineda (pe-na'-da) skirted the shores of the Gulf from Florida to Mexico.
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Spaniards sail round the World.%--In the same year (1519) that Pineda explored the Gulf coast, a Portuguese named Magellan (ma-jel'-an) led a Spanish fleet across the Atlantic.

He coasted along South America to Tierra del Fuego, entered the strait which now bears his name, passed well up the western coast, and turning westward sailed toward India.

He was then on the ocean which Balboa had discovered and named the South Sea.

But Magellan found it so much smoother than the Atlantic that he called it the Pacific.