Quotes About Exploration

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

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

allowed Spain or Portugal the freedom of the seas to reach lands belonging to one empire or the other.

Da Gama received a royal appointment as viceroy of India

Magellan served at the pleasure of his Castilian captains, rather than the other way around.

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

water and strong currents, appearing to be a strait and the mouth of a big gulf that might be discharging into it.

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

Vasco da Gama came to believe that he had been inadequately rewarded for his service to the crown.

and that figure covered just enough food to see them through the first leg or two of the voyage.

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

Elizabeth crossed the Sargasso Sea without incident

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

and on May 5 sailed northeast into the North Atlantic.

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

Soon after, Ferdinand canceled the expedition, but he sent word to his representatives in the Caribbean

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.