An Introduction to American History European Beginnings
An Introduction to American History European Beginnings
Alice Minerva Atkinson
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Strait of Magellan. Hardships in crossing the Pacific Ocean. Magellan s death in the Philippines. The Moluccas. Return of the ]-"ic1oria SECTION 43. How MAGELLAN SAILED AROUND SOUTH AMERICA TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN The Spice Islands. Between Asia and Australia lies a vast multitude of islands, great and small, called the Malay Archipelago. Among these is a little group known as the Moluccas. These are the famous Spice Islands, toward which every bold sailor in the age of discovery had been directin...g his eyes. After Da Gama had reached India by going around Africa, other Portuguese mariners pressed further east, and some of them finally reached the Spice Islands, where the especially rare nutmeg and cloves grew. Charles V of Spain helps Magellan. Another Portuguese, Ferdinand Magellan, now formed the plan of sailing westward, around South America, in order to reach the Moluccas. The glory of his adventure fell, however, to Spain instead of to Portugal. Magellan, offended by a failure on the part of the Portuguese monarch to reward THE FIRST VOYAGE AROUND THE WORLD 243 him for certain services he had performed, turned to the Spanish ruler, Emperor Charles V.
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