Quotes About Navigation

King Manuel of Portugal protested, Ferdinand, shading the truth a bit, explained that Solis's task was simply to find the line

the authorities in that distant outpost of the Spanish empire found a Portuguese caravel that had wandered into the Caribbean.

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.

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.

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.

The farther south he went, the more concerned Magellan became that he had accidentally passed the strait.

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

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

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

The helmsman steered, the ship moved on; Yet never a breeze up-blew; The mariners all 'gan work the ropes, Where they were wont to do; They raised their limbs like lifeless tools— We were a ghastly crew.

Less is known about Magellan's mother, Alda de Mesquita

Then there was the question of Magellan's nationality.

Magellan preferred to anchor offshore, away from danger, as he continued his single-minded quest for the strait.

he was changing the name of the flagship from Pelican to Golden Hind

The prospect of a Portuguese leading a Spanish expedition through Portuguese waters

If this was the map Magellan had in mind, it would have been nearly useless in trying to find the strait.

she would eventually become the most celebrated vessel of the Age of Discovery.

Even the daring Schöner hesitated to depict the western coast of South America;

Ferdinand Magellan never thought of himself as anything other than a devout Catholic.

Schöner, like other cartographers of his era, shrank the immense Pacific