Quotes About Expedition

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power over the expedition. It would take Fonseca months, but eventually he would have his revenge on Magellan

and exert the control over the expedition that had been denied him in the royal contract.

Magellan finally gave the command to weigh anchor on August 24. After the harrowing five-month layover

the Armada de Molucca put to sea.

orders that became the most controversial aspect of the entire expedition—to serve as the inspector general of the fleet

equipped with crew, food, and artillery, to wit that the said ships are to go supplied for two years

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

Cartagena was to have the final say over all commercial aspects of the expedition;

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

Years before Magellan arrived at the Río de la Plata, both Spanish and Portuguese ships had searched for the strait at this very point.

Immediately after the meetings at Valladolid, the potential co-leaders of the expedition presented a list of demands to the crown;

fifty leagues past the cape, they explored a large bay and came upon a caravan of men and camels.

Baldaya sailed farther south and collected thousands of sealskins;

Every captain sponsored by Prince Henry was under orders to record the tides, the currents, and the winds

would be coming along with them in one of the ships.

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

Magellan and Faleiro had to see to it that the crew members had no contact with local women.

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

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

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

Soon after, Ferdinand canceled the expedition, but he sent word to his representatives in the Caribbean