Quotes About Journey

Magellan finally gave the command to weigh anchor on August 24. After the harrowing five-month layover

the Armada de Molucca put to sea.

The strait still eluded them but, God willing, they would find it, and reach the Spice Islands

By May 18, they went ashore again, in a different bay, where they waited fifteen days for the missing ships.

Laurence Bergreen

mass, only Magellan's cousin, Álvaro de Mesquita, the recently appointed captain of San Antonio, came aboard Trinidad

equipped with crew, food, and artillery, to wit that the said ships are to go supplied for two years

where they cooperated in the enterprise of exploring the world, under Henry's direction.

and it was probably a robust sudestada that caused Magellan to turn back and seek shelter.

masts, and rigging, practically every exposed surface of the ship except for the sails.

When they turned over the sand clocks, they recited psalms or prayers invoking divine guidance for a safe voyage.

learned to his relief that they were deep enough for his ships to pass unharmed.

The privileged pages maintained the sixteen Venetian sand clocks—or ampolletas—carried by Magellan's ships.

quietly made his way to San Antonio. He was joined there in the dark water lapping at the ship's hull by Juan de Cartagena

In 1513, only six years before Magellan undertook his circumnavigation, Juan Ponce de León set out to find the Fountain of Youth.

fifty leagues past the cape, they explored a large bay and came upon a caravan of men and camels.

Concepción 90 tons, Victoria 85 tons;

together with Alfonso Gonçalves Baldaya, returned to Cape Bojador;

and Santiago, to be used

would be coming along with them in one of the ships.

privacy did not exist aboard these ships—and if the sea happened to be rough

Magellan was to go in search of spices and lands, and nothing else, and when he reached the Spice Islands

After several months at sea, the five ships of the Armada

he made out a broad sandbank strewn with the skeletons of whales—a suggestion that he had come across a migration route