Quotes About Journey

the Armada de Molucca was at last ready to conquer the ocean.

Everything to the west was also unknown.

And on January 20, 1518, Magellan, along with Ruy Faleiro and Ruy's brother Francisco, set out from Seville for Valladolid.

Few among them had confidence that Magellan could lead them to the edge of the world and beyond

explore its murky and seductive reaches. Santiago spent two days sailing upstream

Magellan could only have marveled at the speed with which his plan to reach the Spice Islands had come together.

was to keep a record of the voyage, not the dry, factual pilot's log, but a more personal, anecdotal

and free-flowing account in the tradition of other popular travel works of the day;

but "of all the dangers that in our whole voyage we met with

Three hundred and

Magellan of October was on the

Hugging the coast, the fleet spent the last week of February sailing west toward Bahía Blanca

what would actually occur once he set forth from Seville.

Heaving long passed the point of no return to South America

Finally, on February 27, the armada explored a promising inlet

and carefully explored it to locate an entrance to the strait.

From the time we left that bay until the present day, we sailed fourteen thousand four hundred and sixty leagues"—nearly sixty thousand miles—"and furthermore completed the circumnavigation of the world from east to west.

trying to lure Magellan and Faleiro back to Portugal.

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

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

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

Surviving shipwrecks and pirates, Serrão and several companions arrived at Ternate

A week after leaving Seville, the fleet reached the snug coastal town of Sanlúcar de Barrameda

more than enough, he calculated, to carry them through the strait and to the Moluccas.