Quotes from Laurence Bergreen

if they continued with their plan to sail for Spain; they would offend God, King Manuel

Abandoned, the Sabrosa estate fell into disrepair, and another house rose on the site.

Portuguese did not maintain a permanent settlement there. A small abandoned customshouse served as the sole evidence of the Portuguese occupation.

Magellan brought a prominent personage with him: Ruy Faleiro, a mathematician, astronomer, and nautical scholar.

Nor would matters end there; their families and heirs would suffer

The stone that once held the Magellan escutcheon met with a special fate: It was covered with excrement.

No Portuguese ships occupied the harbor when Magellan arrived, and he felt safe enough to drop anchor.

He was, in short, that quintessential Renaissance man, a cosmologist.

Magellan refused to be swayed by the ambassador's entreaties.

Apparently, a tribe of Fuegian Indians had used the place to bury their dead in warm weather, and then vanished

suspected that if he returned to Portugal he would be thrown into jail, tried for treason, and executed.

Although this was his first visit to Brazil, Magellan was familiar with the brilliantly evocative descriptions

but they found only a primitive structure sheltering two hundred gravesites.

Magellan replied that he had formally renounced his allegiance to King Manuel and given his loyalty to King Charles.

the land written by Amerigo Vespucci after his visit in 1502.

approximation to Paradise that Magellan was likely to encounter during his entire voyage around the world.

The water is of a fine blue colour

Three hundred years later, Charles Darwin encountered a canoe bearing tribal members

his allegiance to King Manuel and given his loyalty to King Charles.

Santiago's crew soon discovered that food was even more plentiful around the Santa Cruz River

Darwin felt that he was peering through eons to the dawn of human society. He judged them

Faleiro was a brilliant but unstable man who impressed his colleagues with his demonic personality;

the Indians whom Magellan and his crew would encounter in Rio de Janeiro:

than at Port Saint Julian, and Serrano decided to linger for six days to fish and hunt for sea elephants.