Quotes About Exploration

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.

The Casa de Contratación decreed that Magellan must limit his entire crew to 235 men, including cabin boys.

According to this account, the expedition came to a strait, entered it, and sailed west until violent storms

forced the ships to turn back. Lisboa might even have navigated the strait all the way to the Pacific.

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

Although incomplete, the description of Lisboa's clandestine voyage was consistent with the strait that Magellan eventually explored.

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.

long and checkered history in the service of the Portuguese empire in Africa: Fernão de Magalhães, or Ferdinand Magellan.

To Magellan, the gulf appeared far more likely to lead to the strait than the Río de la Plata

Schöner's maps closely resembled Behaim's, and Pigafetta could easily have mistaken one for the other

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

Schöner's globe depicted a strait cutting through the American continent in the approximate location

permission to hire only a dozen Portuguese; in reality, he was taking nearly forty with him.

to land, they would have spotted penguins, sea lions, and even huge elephant seals lolling on the rocky shores.

of the Isthmus of Panama—several thousand miles north of the actual strait.

they had gone ashore, they would have encountered an animal paradise of foxes, hares, puma, peregrine falcons, owls