Quotes About Voyage

merchants who financed this expedition viewed it as a reconnaissance mission rather than a trading venture and little cargo was loaded on board the ships. Instead, all available space was converted into living space for the large number of men on board, a necessary feature of long voyages into the unknown. Many would die on the outward trip and for those that survived there was a cornucopia of tropical diseases awaiting them on their arrival in the East

The captain had been telling how, in one of his Arctic voyages, it was so cold that the mate's shadow froze fast to the deck and had to be ripped loose by main strength. And even then he got only about two-thirds of it back.

But then we remembered. What did time matter when one was on an endless voyage?... And so we resigned ourselves and cultivated the virtue of patience. Only then did I notice that my back had begun hurting again.

Travelling shouldn't be just a tour, it should be a tale.

To be homeward bound, no matter what tragic memories you have harbored, is unlike any voyage a man can ever make.

When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.

On both ships we were as comfortable as possible, and the voyage was wholly devoid of incidents. Now and then, as at the Azores, at Suez, and at Aden, the three naturalists landed, and collected some dozens or scores of birds — which next day were skinned and prepared in my room, as the largest and best fitted for the purpose

I love to travel and see new places.

There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.

The charm of travelling is everywhere I go, tiny life.

There are two kinds of women in this world, my dear. Those who wave goodbye to others starting on grand adventures and those waving back from the window of a train or the deck of a ship. - Ophelia Higginbotham

Umbrarum hic locus est, somni noctisque soporae; corpora viva nefas Stygia vectare carina.

Ille admirans venerabile donum fatalis virgae, longo post tempore visum, caeruleam advertit puppim, ripaeque propinquat.

There are nights when as soon as I lie down My bed sails off to Russia.

Friend, never fear dying. Dying is the last, but the least matter that a person has to be anxious about. Fear living, that is a hard battle to fight, a stern discipline to endure, a rough voyage to undergo ! Charles Spurgeon

While he fucked the Slave, hoping all the while that Master would watch only and not give vent, Fred attempted to remember his decisions: Had he not decided to write about a Voyage of Discovery into this World in which he lived? This Faggot World.

the Armada de Molucca put to sea.

Preparations for the voyage continued, but the flag incident served as a warning to Magellan that his men

mass, only Magellan's cousin, Álvaro de Mesquita, the recently appointed captain of San Antonio, came aboard Trinidad

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.

masts, and rigging, practically every exposed surface of the ship except for the sails.

When they turned over the sand clocks, they recited psalms or prayers invoking divine guidance for a safe voyage.

There was more. Cartagena was to function as the eyes and ears of the king throughout the voyage.