First voyage around the world

By Magellan
 Ferdinand
Magellan

Magellan has come to be

renowned for his navigational
skill and tenacity. The first
circumnavigation has been called
"the greatest sea voyage in the
Age of Discovery", and even "the
most important maritime voyage
ever undertaken".
 Antonio
Pigafetta

An Italian scholar and explorer from the

Republic of Venice. He joined the expedition to the
Spice Islands led by explorer Ferdinand Magellan under
the flag of King Charles I of Spain. During the
expedition, he served as Magellan's assistant and kept an
accurate journal which later assisted him in translating
the Cebuano language. It is the first recorded document
concerning the language.

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 Saturday, the 16th of march, 1521, “we arrived at
daybreak in sight of a high islands, three hundred leagues
distant from the before-mentioned the thieves island. This
isle is named Zamal”
The next day, the captain-general wished to land at another
uninhabited island near them. For them to be in a safer
area. And rest for a few days and set up their tents for the
sick ones.
 Monday, the 18th of march, they saw a boat
sailing towards them with nine men in it. Their
captain-general ordered them that no one should
move or speak without his permission, then the
principle one of the nine men in the boat
approaches the captain-general full of happiness
and joy. Five of the men stayed and the other four
gathered the the men who were fishing. Then the
captain-general saw that those men were
reasonable, then ordered food and drink to be
given to them. The captain-general gave them
caps, looking glasses, combs and other things.
Then when they saw the politeness of the captain-
general they presented some fish and a vessel of
palm wine which they call uraca
To explain the kind of fruits it must be known that the one
which they call cochi, is the fruit which the palm trees bear.
And as we have bread, wine, oil, and vinegar, proceeding
from different kinds, so these people have those things
proceeding from these palm trees.

When they wish to make oil, they take this fruit, the coco,
and let it rot, then they corrupt this marrow in the water, the
they boil it, and it becomes oil in the manner of butter.
When they want to make vinegar, they let the water in the
cocoa-nut get bad, and they put it in the sun, when it turns
to vinegar like white wine.
 These people become very familiar and friendly with us and
explained many things to us in their language, and told us the
names of some islands, which they saw with their own eyes.
The captain seeing that they were of this good condition, to
do them greater honour conducted them to the ship, and
showed then all his goods, this is to say, cloves, cinnamon,
pepper, mace , gold and all that in the ship. When they
wished to leave the captain, they took leave of the captain
with good manners and gracefulness, and promising the
captain to come back to see them again.the island that they
were at was named humunu. In this place there were also
many circumjacent islands, on which account they named
them the archipelago of St. Lazarus, because they stayed
there and feast of St. Lazarus.
 Friday, the 22nd of march, the mentioned
people, who had promise to return, came about
midday, with two boats laden with the said
fruit cochi, sweet oranges, a vessel of palm
wine, and a cock to give us to understand that
they had poultry in their country, so that we
bought all that they brought. They remained in
the place for 8 days. And the captain see his
sick men everyday.
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First voyage around the Earth

 In the late 1400’s a great new age of European began led by
Portuguese, Spanish and Italian sailor. They made great voyages into
the unknown full of danger, adventures and discovery. These pioneers
were driven by Christian Zeal and profit. In Europe, spice cinnamon,
cloves and nutmeg which only grew in the Far East were worth their
wight in gold. Whoever controlled their trade was guaranteed imense
wealth. By 1518, the route to so called, spice island was dominated
by Protugal , Spain wanted a route of its own. Enter 38 year old
Portuguese sailor, Ferdinand de Magallanes. Ferdinand Magellan, as
he’s known in English, was a brilliant navigator who’d spent many
years sailing the Indiana Ocean. But he’d fallen out with the king of
Portugal and now offered a bold plan to his rival, King Charles I of
Spain. Magellan believed it was possible to sail around The New
World and reach the Spice Island from the east. Since contrary to
popular myth it had been widely accepted for centuries that the Earth
was round. King Charles accepted Magellan’s proposal and helped
him assemble an expedition with 270 crew and five ships as carracks.
 The fleet set sail on the 20th September 1519
and crossed a stormy Atlantic to reach the future
site of Rio de Janeiro in modern Brazil. Here the
men traded with local tribes, exchanging simple
objects like metal fish hooks and playing cards
for fresh food and water. Magellan continued
south until winter forced him to camp in Puerto
San Julian which is in Argentina. There
Magellan faced a mutiny led by Spanish officers
convinced he was leading them to their doom.
Magellan acted swiftly and ruthlessly, he sent
loyal men to kill one of the ringleaders while
another was captured and executed. Two others
were marooned and left behind when the fleet
sailed south again in August. As magellan search
for a passage west, one ship.
 As Magellan search for a passage west,
one ship the Santiago was wrecked
though the crew was saved, another ship
the San Antonio deserted and sailed
home. Magellan discovered 350 miles
strait which now bares his name called
strait of Magellan located in southern
Chile separating mainland south America
Santiago to the north and Tierra del Fuego. As
magellan travels to the west, through the
far ocean a sea that seemed so calm He
named it Mar Pacifico and now known as
Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Ocean was far
bigger than they estimated, their supplies
ran out, the men was forced to eat rats
and drink putrid water. 19 of them died
because of scurvy.
San Antonio
After 99 days at sea the look out spied land, they found Guam
in the Mariana islands. Some of their troops stole one of their
boat fighting broke out and Magellan had to leave without
fresh permission. Magellan and hid men were the first
European to reach the Philippines. Where they were able to
feast on bananas and coconuts. They sailed on through the
Philippines to Cebu where they made an alliance on a local
ruler who agreed to be baptised as a Christian and swore
allegiance to the king of Spain. A lead chief from island of
Mactan asked Magellan for help in defeating his rival named
Lapu-Lapu, and Magellan agreed. He crossed to Mactan with
60 men in boat. But though the Europeans had superior
weapons and armour , they were massively outnumbered.
After burning the enemy village, Magellan’s men were driven
back into the shallow water where Magellan himself was cut
down as they tried to reach the boats. Their former allies on
Cebu turned on Magellan’s crew, butchering 30 of them in an
ambush.
 Their former allies on Cebu turned on Magellan’s
crew, butchering 30 of them in an ambush. The
survivors fled with only enough men left to crew two
ships. They burned the conception and continued
their search for the spice islands. They traveled the
muslim court of Brunei on Borneo and they were
amazed by its splendor. Finally with the help of local
guides and more than two years after sailing from
Spain, they reached their destination, the spice or
Maluku Island or the Moluccas are an archipelago in
Eastern Indonesia. They traded everything they had
for all the cloves their two ship could carry, but as
they prepared for the long voyage home. The
Trinidad sprang a leak and had to stay behind for
repairs. Its crew later tried to return to Spain across
the Pacific, but most of the men became sick or died.
The survivors had to return to the Maluku island
where they snd the Trinidad were captured by
Portuguese.
 The Victoria, the last and the smallest ship of Magellan’s fleet sailed
west for home, captained bu Juan Sebastian Elcano. Crossing the
Indian Ocean, it took 9 weeks of battling headwinds before they
could round the Cape of Good Hope, a rocky headland on the Atlantic
coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa. The men began to starve
once more. 21 died before they found provisions at Cape Verde. On
the 8th of September 1522, almost exactly 3 years after their
departure, the famished, exhausted crew of Victoria cast anchor at
Seville, Spain. Just 18 of the original crew of 270 had made it home.
 What they and Magellan’s expedition had achieved was
astonishing. The first voyage to circumnavigate around the
world. Mankind, at last at final conclusive proof that their
planet was sphere and a greater idea than ever before of its
vast size. It was an incredible feat, not repeated for 58
years when an Englishman named Francis Drake had his
own remarkable voyage around the Earth