It took Magellan's crew a total calendar month to negotiate the direct that would come upwardly to comport his name. Strong currents, fog, a tortuous course, unsafe rocky outcrops too shifting gales slowed progress too a mutiny on the San Antonio, the chief render ship, cutting the fleet to iii boats past times the fourth dimension they entered the Pacific inward tardily November, 1520.
Having no concept of the corking distance that yet prevarication ahead, Magellan sailed northward, paralleling the coast of South America equally far equally present-day Santiago, Chile. Then fishing to the WNW, his ships caught the merchandise winds too enjoyed pleasant atmospheric condition for the adjacent iii months. Unfortunately, since maps of the Pacific had non yet been created past times Europeans, the fleet could non "island hop" to restore supplies; malnutrition too scurvy took a pregnant terms on the crew earlier they finally reached Guam inward early on March, 1521. There they encountered friendly natives whom they managed to mistreat too kill despite receiving life-saving nutrient too water.
By mid March, the fleet reached the Philippines, having crossed the Pacific Ocean inward iii too a one-half months. Today, nosotros know that their finish of reaching the Spice Islands (Indonesia) was unopen to realized but, inward 1521, alongside no maps of Southeast Asia available, Magellan too his crew were equally lost equally they were at the Strait.
Note: As mentioned inward the lastly 2 posts, these brief summaries are taken from Over the Edge of the World, past times Laurence Bergreen. Interested readers are encouraged to obtain that highly-detailed simply easily read concern human relationship of Magellan's Journey.
See also: Polynesian Migration for perspective on pre-European colonization of the Western Pacific.
Having no concept of the corking distance that yet prevarication ahead, Magellan sailed northward, paralleling the coast of South America equally far equally present-day Santiago, Chile. Then fishing to the WNW, his ships caught the merchandise winds too enjoyed pleasant atmospheric condition for the adjacent iii months. Unfortunately, since maps of the Pacific had non yet been created past times Europeans, the fleet could non "island hop" to restore supplies; malnutrition too scurvy took a pregnant terms on the crew earlier they finally reached Guam inward early on March, 1521. There they encountered friendly natives whom they managed to mistreat too kill despite receiving life-saving nutrient too water.
By mid March, the fleet reached the Philippines, having crossed the Pacific Ocean inward iii too a one-half months. Today, nosotros know that their finish of reaching the Spice Islands (Indonesia) was unopen to realized but, inward 1521, alongside no maps of Southeast Asia available, Magellan too his crew were equally lost equally they were at the Strait.
Note: As mentioned inward the lastly 2 posts, these brief summaries are taken from Over the Edge of the World, past times Laurence Bergreen. Interested readers are encouraged to obtain that highly-detailed simply easily read concern human relationship of Magellan's Journey.
See also: Polynesian Migration for perspective on pre-European colonization of the Western Pacific.
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