Quotes About Adventure

Magellan named the inlet Bahía de los Patos, Duck Bay

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.

Fearful of stumbling across warlike tribes that might be prowling in the forest

Magellan brought a prominent personage with him: Ruy Faleiro, a mathematician, astronomer, and nautical scholar.

No Portuguese ships occupied the harbor when Magellan arrived, and he felt safe enough to drop anchor.

Although this was his first visit to Brazil, Magellan was familiar with the brilliantly evocative descriptions

the land written by Amerigo Vespucci after his visit in 1502.

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.

Serrano had no time to reef the sails. Fierce seas pounded the ship

The previous circumnavigation came to a tragic conclusion fifty-five years earlier

Estêvão Gomes, reassigned as the pilot of San Antonio, strongly dissented. Now that they had found

In 1518, the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan

and, to his astonishment, the king replied that Magellan was free to do as he

Magellan led a fleet of five little ships and 258 sailors from a variety of nations

I have found here a new world richer and greater than that of Vasco da Gama," he wrote.

By October 20, 1517, he had arrived in Seville

A round-trip to the far side of the world lasted seven years or longer