Quotes About Adventure

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

the weary sailors studied the sea for buried shoals, examined the rigging, dried the dew from the lines

Magellan found it impossible to enforce this directive), as were card and dice players.

Although Portugal was celebrated for leading Europe into the Age of Discovery, Portuguese kings often frustrated their heroic mariners.

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

his voyage opened new possibilities for Portuguese trade and conquest.

Each ship had three masts, one of which carried a lateen sail.

the Atlantic to the Pacific.

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

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

Da Gama received a royal appointment as viceroy of 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.

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.

The Solis-Pinzón expedition, which embarked in 1508, discovered nothing, and when the expedition's two ships returned to Spain

and on May 5 sailed northeast into the North Atlantic.

time he joined the ranks of explorers who became estranged from this vain ruler.

made him pilot major; he then received an ambitious new commission to claim the Spice Islands for Spain.

She turned out to be a ship filled with secrets. In 1511, Cristóbal de Haro had backed a covert Portuguese

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

he renewed his acquaintanceship with Magellan, and combined their enthusiasm for a search for the strait.

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