Quotes About Voyage

was to keep a record of the voyage, not the dry, factual pilot's log, but a more personal, anecdotal

but "of all the dangers that in our whole voyage we met with

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

Trinidad went first, slipping past Sugar Loaf and coming quietly to anchor in the harbor. Magellan had arrived in the New World.

Magellan named the inlet Bahía de los Patos, Duck Bay

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.

if they continued with their plan to sail for Spain; they would offend God, King Manuel

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

We send Cristóbal Colón with three caravels through the Ocean Sea to the Indies on some business that concerns the service of God and the expansion of the Catholic faith and our benefit and utility.

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

In 1518, the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan

By "sea wolves" Pigafetta meant the sub-Antarctic sea lion or the sea elephant

and finally the captain. Each of the top three officers had his own page (as Captain General, Magellan

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

On March 1, 1579, Drake caught sight of the Spanish treasure ship

On April 6, after more than three months of repairs, she finally weighed anchor and unfurled her sails. The ship carried a full load of spices, one thousand quintals of cloves—fifty tons!—more than enough to justify the expense of the entire voyage.

If a sailor devoted years of his life to getting there and back, and if he managed to bring home a small sack stuffed with spices

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

without the Pacific Ocean to inform his calculations, the estimated length of his route came to only half the actual distance.

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.

set sail for the Spice Islands.

especially for those born in ports and maritime areas. This sort is the most numerous among mariners

Rescue will come as a welcome interruption of…the survival voyage.

submarines in another. Soon a third