" Sebastian Cano was a mountaineer, from the hamlet
of Guetaria in the Pyrenees Mountains, according to Mapheo, [277] in
his Latin history. In his history he devotes much space to the great
courage of Cano, and his skill in the arts of navigation. He recounts
the universal respect and admiration bestowed upon Cano, since he was
the first in the age of mortals to circumnavigate this globe. And in
truth, what estimation can remain to the fabulous Argonauts, Tiphys
and Jason, and the other navigators whom the elegance or the daring
of Grecia extols, when compared to our Cano? He was the first witness
of the commerce of the seas, and nature opened to his eyes what had
been reserved until then for them; and he was allowed to explore it
all, and to furnish a beginning in so arduous endeavors for the law
that saves and renders eternal. After the death of Magallanes, the
Lusones Islands--which ought to have inherited his name, as being
his sepulcher, as the strait did because of his passage through
it--changed that name for that of Filipinas, [278] in the year one
thousand five hundred and sixty-five; although those islands of that
eastern archipeago are also called by that name.
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