Quotes About Discovery

Of the food that Magellan took on at Seville, nearly four-fifths consisted of just two items, wine and hardtack.

The Solis-Pinzón expedition, which embarked in 1508, discovered nothing, and when the expedition's two ships returned to Spain

time he joined the ranks of explorers who became estranged from this vain ruler.

cape which we discovered before this spit is called the Cape of the [Eleven Thousand] Virgins

made him pilot major; he then received an ambitious new commission to claim the Spice Islands for Spain.

found many islands filled with people without number, and of them all have I taken possession for Their Highnesses, by proclamation and with the royal standard displayed, and nobody objected.

King Manuel of Portugal protested, Ferdinand, shading the truth a bit, explained that Solis's task was simply to find the line

rising approximately 130 feet from the water. A later explorer described the cape as "three great mountains of sand that look like islands

the authorities in that distant outpost of the Spanish empire found a Portuguese caravel that had wandered into the Caribbean.

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

She turned out to be a ship filled with secrets. In 1511, Cristóbal de Haro had backed a covert Portuguese

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

But Mesquita found Andrés de San Martín, the esteemed astronomer-astrologer; Hernando Morales

Núñez de Balboa had glimpsed the vast ocean to the west: the Pacific

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

Winter had navigated the Strait not just once, as Magellan and Drake had, but twice.

the black ships reached the expansive mouth of San Matías Gulf, on the coast of Argentina.

sailed along its coast, and spotted a tribe that seemed friendly, at least from a distance. In good spirits

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

Once the horror of the inquisitional catharsis subsided, Mesquita (with Magellan's blessing)