Quotes About Spice Islands

The Saracens had no use for these measurements, no reason to sail around the earth to India. They were in India. Cathay and the Spice Islands were on their doorstep. But Europeans needed a route to India, and the Crusades taught them that they did. The riches of the world were in the East, and the Saracens had them. Europeans were the Have Not nations, and they knew it.

The fleet would be called the Armada de Molucca, after the Indonesian name for the Spice Islands. The ships were mostly black—pitch black.

The fleet would be called the Armada de Molucca, after the Indonesian name for the Spice Islands. The ships were mostly black—pitch black. They derived their blackness, and their ominous aura, from the tar covering the hull

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

Qualified sailors were rare in Seville, and qualified sailors willing to risk their lives on a voyage to the Spice Islands rarer still.

Magellan's insistence on a ten-year exclusive on voyages to the Spice Islands appeared preposterous

King Charles dispatched a follow-up expedition to the Spice Islands only six years after Magellan's departure from Spain.

This error might have been intentional, to disguise the Spice Islands' location from outsiders

Magellan's expedition to the Spice Islands must not violate the treaty.

Magellan spoke excitedly of his intention to sail along the eastern coast of what is now called South America until the land ended and he would be able to turn west toward the Spice Islands;