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Recently orphaned, Mateo signs on to be a cabin boy on the voyage of Ferdinand Magellan. In a somewhat overwritten first-person narrative, Mateo describes daily life at sea, his love affair with a native girl, and witnessing both a mutiny and the murder of the captain. An afterword places events in historical perspective. Bib., glos.