Quotes About Journey

the Atlantic to the Pacific.

Vasco da Gama retraced Dias's route around the tip of Africa and reached Mozambique on the southeastern coast;

the way became narrower, they thought it was a river

there he replenished his supplies and sailed farther east to establish an ocean route to India.

then, with mounting excitement, recorded that the wide mouth turned into a narrows farther ahead.

Magellan ordered his ships to sail into the gulf, and when they were well within its embrace

and that figure covered just enough food to see them through the first leg or two of the voyage.

saw it: the outlet leading west, just as he prayed it would. Magellan had finally found his strait.

Elizabeth crossed the Sargasso Sea without incident

Of the food that Magellan took on at Seville, nearly four-fifths consisted of just two items, wine and hardtack.

and on May 5 sailed northeast into the North Atlantic.

marks the entrance to the strait that Magellan had sought for more than two years.

According to this account, the expedition came to a strait, entered it, and sailed west until violent storms

But Mesquita found Andrés de San Martín, the esteemed astronomer-astrologer; Hernando Morales

Núñez de Balboa had glimpsed the vast ocean to the west: the Pacific

Within months of hearing the news, King Ferdinand once again sent Juan de Solis to find the strait

Winter had navigated the Strait not just once, as Magellan and Drake had, but twice.

On the day before the fleet's departure from Seville, August 9, 1519, Magellan was summoned from his frantic last-minute

the black ships reached the expansive mouth of San Matías Gulf, on the coast of Argentina.

The fate of the expedition depended on finding it.

she would eventually become the most celebrated vessel of the Age of Discovery.

guarantee this voyage, he had sacrificed his allegiance to his homeland, his partnership with Ruy Faleiro

as he termed it, terra ulterior incog.—in other words, "the land that has been hitherto unknown.

Ferdinand Magellan and his brother Diogo moved to Lisbon, where they became pages at the royal court;