Quotes About Navigation

After six months at sea, Magellan's ability to lead the armada was still in grave doubt.

the first clause, King Charles appeared to accede to Magellan's insistence on a ten-year exclusive:

Unwilling to commit the entire fleet to the river, he dispatched Santiago, the smallest ship

The Spice Islands were too valuable to entrust to the luck and skill of a single explorer.

You must so conduct this voyage of discovery that you do not encroach upon the demarcation

King Charles conferred the title of captain on both Magellan and Faleiro.

Magellan could only have marveled at the speed with which his plan to reach the Spice Islands had come together.

Magellan of October was on the

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

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.

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

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

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

Magellan named the inlet Bahía de los Patos, Duck Bay

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

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.

trying to lure Magellan and Faleiro back to Portugal.

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

No Portuguese ships occupied the harbor when Magellan arrived, and he felt safe enough to drop anchor.

the land written by Amerigo Vespucci after his visit in 1502.

the Indians whom Magellan and his crew would encounter in Rio de Janeiro:

more than enough, he calculated, to carry them through the strait and to the Moluccas.

Serrano attempted to head into the wind and ride out the storm, but overpowering gusts tore the sails