Quotes About Adventure

forced the ships to turn back. Lisboa might even have navigated the strait all the way to the Pacific.

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

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

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

sailed along its coast, and spotted a tribe that seemed friendly, at least from a distance. In good spirits

Once the horror of the inquisitional catharsis subsided, Mesquita (with Magellan's blessing)

Schöner's globe depicted a strait cutting through the American continent in the approximate location

to land, they would have spotted penguins, sea lions, and even huge elephant seals lolling on the rocky shores.

they had gone ashore, they would have encountered an animal paradise of foxes, hares, puma, peregrine falcons, owls

Magellan preferred to anchor offshore, away from danger, as he continued his single-minded quest for the strait.

he was changing the name of the flagship from Pelican to Golden Hind

and Cristóvão Rebêlo, his illegitimate son.

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

The Edge of the World

Even the daring Schöner hesitated to depict the western coast of South America;

They asked to keep any "islands" they discovered for themselves, if they discovered more than six

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;

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.