Quotes About Discovery

in 1434, Eannes finally accomplished what so many had said was impossible

In 1513, only six years before Magellan undertook his circumnavigation, Juan Ponce de León set out to find the Fountain of Youth.

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

Concepción 90 tons, Victoria 85 tons;

According to tradition, the fountain was located on the island of Bimini, in the Bahamas.

together with Alfonso Gonçalves Baldaya, returned to Cape Bojador;

and Santiago, to be used

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.

Portuguese knowledge of the oceans and of the world beyond the Iberian peninsula.

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

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

In 1488, during the reign of João II, Bartolomeu Dias reached the southernmost point of Africa and rounded what is now known as the Cape of Good Hope;

his voyage opened new possibilities for Portuguese trade and conquest.

he made out a broad sandbank strewn with the skeletons of whales—a suggestion that he had come across a migration route

the Atlantic to the Pacific.

Vasco da Gama retraced Dias's route around the tip of Africa and reached Mozambique on the southeastern coast;

Magellan referred the distinguished members of the Casa to a clause in the Treaty of Tordesillas

the way became narrower, they thought it was a river

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

then, with mounting excitement, recorded that the wide mouth turned into a narrows farther ahead.

Magellan ordered his ships to sail into the gulf, and when they were well within its embrace

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