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1615 T. Roe Jrnl. 3 May in Embassy to Court Great Mogul (1899) I. 5 The Magillan cloudes first appeare, and they keepe their course with the Polar Starre about the Pole.

1639 E. Chilmead tr. R. Hues Learned Treat. Globes ii. vii. 115 Our Mariners use to call them Magellanes Clouds.

1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Magellan's Clouds, two small Clouds of the same colour with Via Lactea, not far distant from the South Pole.

1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 175 The next Day we discover'd the Magellan Clouds... These Clouds are always seen in the same Degree, and in the same orbicular Form.

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast v. 9 The Magellan Clouds consist of three small nebulæ in the southern part of the heavens.

1884 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 13 293 The two black spaces seen in the milky way (the absence of nebulæ near Magellan's cloud) are two old blackfellows.

1973 Current Anthropol. 14 420/1 Monod's study..notes the early use of Magellan Clouds as a navigational aid.