Quotes About Expedition

He cautiously committed only six seamen to a landing party charged with fetching supplies

than at Port Saint Julian, and Serrano decided to linger for six days to fish and hunt for sea elephants.

in September of 1517, Magellan asked if he could offer his services elsewhere

clever way of donating a portion of the expedition's profits to the Church.

In 1518, the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan

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

Their land route back to Port Saint Julian presented seemingly overwhelming obstacles:

Stripped of his command, and having learned nothing from the experience of his failed mutiny, Cartagena grew intensely resentful of his inexperienced replacement. From that moment, he burned with desire for revenge against Magellan, no matter what the cost to the expedition, and as Fonseca's son, Cartagena had power to make great trouble. Of all the perils that Magellan faced on the journey's first leg, the greatest was Cartagena's treachery.

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

Magellan located a rumored passage near the southern tip of South America.

By March 6, 1521, the fleet reached the island of Guam

Ten days later Magellan's fleet reached what is now called the Philippines

proved daunting to the crew. They left most of the planks behind, and after four wretched days of marching overland

they had arrived at the Strait of Magellan

Magellan had a well-painted globe in which the entire world was depicted," wrote Bartolomé de las Casas

During those brief days in the Canaries, Magellan busied himself with the final provisioning of his fleet.

Like most explorers of the Age of Discovery, his ideas about the size of the globe, and location of landmasses

Only Seville was capable of providing Magellan with the technology, the labor, and the financial resources

predicted that it would take him at most two years to reach the Spice Islands and return to Spain with ships bulging with precious cargo.

he would have to do was find a way to get around or through South America

After three busy days in one of Tenerife's harbors, Pigafetta wrote, "We departed thence and came to a port called Monterose

and he would be at the doorstep of the Indies.

But one item was left behind in Kansas, to be discovered in 1886: a Spanish sword from Coronado's expedition, inscribed with the name of its owner, Juan Gallegos, and on the blade these words: "Do not draw me without right. Do not sheath me without honor." Here at once is summed up the essential chivalry of the Conquistadors.

across the Staked Plains to Ft. Sumner,