Quotes About Strait

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

water and strong currents, appearing to be a strait and the mouth of a big gulf that might be discharging into it.

saw it: the outlet leading west, just as he prayed it would. Magellan had finally found his strait.

we found by miracle a strait which we called the Cape of the Eleven Thousand Virgins.

After all the ordeals suffered by the armada, the discovery of the strait did lay claim to being a miracle.

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

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

Although incomplete, the description of Lisboa's clandestine voyage was consistent with the strait that Magellan eventually explored.

Within months of hearing the news, King Ferdinand once again sent Juan de Solis to find the strait

The farther south he went, the more concerned Magellan became that he had accidentally passed the strait.

To Magellan, the gulf appeared far more likely to lead to the strait than the Río de la Plata

of the Isthmus of Panama—several thousand miles north of the actual strait.

If this was the map Magellan had in mind, it would have been nearly useless in trying to find the strait.

Magellan led his ships in and around the islands of the bay, but found no sign of a strait.

and carefully explored it to locate an entrance to the strait.

After the tranquil respite, Santiago set sail and proceeded south in search of the strait. On May 22, the wind picked

more than enough, he calculated, to carry them through the strait and to the Moluccas.

the strait, he argued, they should sail back to Spain to assemble a better-equipped fleet.

they had arrived at the Strait of Magellan

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

William Henley put it: It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.

Improvement makes strait roads: but the crooked roads without Improvement are roads of Genius.