At last he came to the islands he called, after the thievish propensities of their inhabitants, the Ladrones, making his first landing at Guam.

Spending but three days here to refit and provision, he sailed again on March 9, [Sidenote: 1521] and a week later discovered the islands known, since 1542, as the Philippines.
{441} In an expedition against a savage chief the great leader met his death on April 27, 1521.

As other sailors and as he, too, had previously been as far to the east as he now found himself, he had practically completed the circumnavigation of the globe.

The most splendid triumph of the age of discovery coincided almost to a day with the time that Luther was achieving the most glorious deed of the Reformation at Worms.
[Sidenote: September 1522] Magellan's ship, the Vittoria, proceeded under Sebastian del Cano, and finally, with thirty-one men, of whom only eighteen had started out in her, came back to Portugal.

The men who had burst asunder one of the bonds of the older world, were, nevertheless, deeply troubled by a strange, medieval scruple.