Quotes About Navigation

Every captain sponsored by Prince Henry was under orders to record the tides, the currents, and the winds

and to compile accurate charts of the coastlines.

Portuguese knowledge of the oceans and of the world beyond the Iberian peninsula.

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

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

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;

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.

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;

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

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.

and on May 5 sailed northeast into the North Atlantic.

made him pilot major; he then received an ambitious new commission to claim the Spice Islands for Spain.

spit of sand is in 52 degrees latitude, 521?2 longitude, and from the spit of sand to the other part