Quotes About Exploration

over the rail and lowered himself onto a crude seat suspended high above the waves.

and to compile accurate charts of the coastlines.

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 could seize any Arabs he found in the Portuguese hemisphere

Magellan came across Arabs in the Spanish hemisphere, he was to treat them well

frigid spray splattered his exposed bottom. (More than one sailor lost his life when he plunged from the jardines

but at the same time he turned a blind eye to the scandals and mutinies surrounding Magellan

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

Elcano, the Basque mariner, took command and immediately ordered the imprisonment of two Portuguese

Magellan and Faleiro had to see to it that the crew members had no contact with local women.

the weary sailors studied the sea for buried shoals, examined the rigging, dried the dew from the lines

Magellan found it impossible to enforce this directive), as were card and dice players.

Although Portugal was celebrated for leading Europe into the Age of Discovery, Portuguese kings often frustrated their heroic mariners.

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.

accounts from Magellan's time mention their daunting stern castles, their multiple decks, and the profusion of obras muertas, or "dead wood

Each ship had three masts, one of which carried a lateen sail.

King Charles was supposed to pay for Magellan's ships, according to the contract, he was deeply in debt.

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.

Members of the Casa failed to see how Magellan could avoid trespassing on Portuguese interests by sailing west until he reached the East.

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