Quotes About Discovery

the land written by Amerigo Vespucci after his visit in 1502.

approximation to Paradise that Magellan was likely to encounter during his entire voyage around the world.

Santiago's crew soon discovered that food was even more plentiful around the Santa Cruz River

the Indians whom Magellan and his crew would encounter in Rio de Janeiro:

than at Port Saint Julian, and Serrano decided to linger for six days to fish and hunt for sea elephants.

Surviving shipwrecks and pirates, Serrão and several companions arrived at Ternate

Vespucci thrilled readers with gruesome accounts of the Indians' customs.

Estêvão Gomes, reassigned as the pilot of San Antonio, strongly dissented. Now that they had found

In 1518, the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan

and, to his astonishment, the king replied that Magellan was free to do as he

The humiliating rejection proved to be the making of Ferdinand Magellan.

I have found here a new world richer and greater than that of Vasco da Gama," he wrote.

By October 20, 1517, he had arrived in Seville

A round-trip to the far side of the world lasted seven years or longer

Magellan had every intention of visiting Serrão in the island paradise

One by one, her crew of thirty-seven crawled to the end of the jib boom and jumped to a rocky beach.

European traders wishing to reach the Spice Islands previously had traveled east rather than west

And when Magellan

Magellan hoped that by going west, in the opposite direction, over water

longer was he Fernão de Magalhães; in Spain, he became known as Hernando de Magallanes.

Magellan believed that he could do what the Genoese navigator had claimed to do but had never actually accomplished:

Significantly, Serrão's letters placed the Spice Islands far to the east of their true position;

reach the fabulous Indies by sailing westward across the ocean.

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