Quotes About Exploration

Hugging the coast, the fleet spent the last week of February sailing west toward Bahía Blanca

what would actually occur once he set forth from Seville.

13, 1519, the fleet entered the lush and gorgeous Bay of Saint Lucy and approached the mouth of the River of January—Rio de Janeiro.

Magellan led his ships in and around the islands of the bay, but found no sign of a strait.

Trinidad went first, slipping past Sugar Loaf and coming quietly to anchor in the harbor. Magellan had arrived in the New World.

Everywhere Magellan looked, there seemed to be an idol mocking him; they were even arrayed along the shore, and their appearance was disturbing to European sensibilities

King Manuel ordered the harassment of Magellan's relatives who remained in their homeland.

the final days of 1499, Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, a Spanish mariner, first saw the coast of what would later be called Brazil.

Magellan refused to consider this huge bay as anything more than that.

Heaving long passed the point of no return to South America

Pinzón explored the easternmost shores of Brazil and ventured into the mouth of the Amazon River

the newly discovered land went by various names; not until 1511 did "Brazil" first appear on a map

Finally, on February 27, the armada explored a promising inlet

Magellan named the inlet Bahía de los Patos, Duck Bay

that King Manuel had refused to back the navigator, humiliating him over and over again.

Even young relatives of Magellan found themselves the object of derision and were stoned.

and carefully explored it to locate an entrance to the strait.

He cautiously committed only six seamen to a landing party charged with fetching supplies

From the time we left that bay until the present day, we sailed fourteen thousand four hundred and sixty leagues"—nearly sixty thousand miles—"and furthermore completed the circumnavigation of the world from east to west.

the five ships comprising the Armada de Molucca in Brazil showed how porous and vulnerable the Portuguese

trying to lure Magellan and Faleiro back to Portugal.

punishment of Ferdinand Magellan's crime of moving to Castile.

Fearful of stumbling across warlike tribes that might be prowling in the forest

Magellan brought a prominent personage with him: Ruy Faleiro, a mathematician, astronomer, and nautical scholar.