Dinesh's photos with the keyword: Magellan

Battista Agnese, Venice, 1544. Magellan’s circumnavigation, under the guidance of the twelve winds of antiquity, is commemorated. North America takes shape, but the form of the Asian landmass and the breadth of the Pacific remain uncertain. Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University

Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University Tupinamba Indians fishing in Brazil. Of the Indians Magellan’s expedition met in Rio de Janero, Anttonio Pigafetta noted: “For a fishhook or a knife they would offer five or six chickens; a part of geese for a comb; for a small mirror or a pair of sessors, enough fish to fee ten people; for a bell or a ribbon, a basket of [sweet] potatoes that taste like nuts or turnips. For the king in a deck of playing cards such as we use in Italy, they gave six chickens, thinking that they had got the better of me.

. . . Although he was a short man, Magellan’s magnificent black beard, soldierly bearing, and calm self-assurance gave him the appearance of a man who knew what he was about and who would not be bulled or suffer fools lightly. His convictions were based on personal experience and close study of available documents and maps on the geography of the far east and southwest Atlantic. He carried maps, globes, and Serrao’s letters to illustrate his arguments. His plain, heavily accented speech was in marked contrast to the flowery verbosity so common at court. Magellan was a different breed from the usual run of hopeful petitioners crowding the anterooms to the offices of King Charles’s counselors. Among these were impoverished adventurers desperate to gain fame and fortune overseas, and professional seafarers such as Gomes, a pilot who yearned to command a royal fleet. What set Magellan apart from most of these petitioners was his quiet dignity. He avoided flamboyant overstatement as unbefitting a nobleman, and presented his ideas with a firm, understated authority, letting his carefully reasoned arguments stand on their merits. ~ Page 83 www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBApHzTZ6BI&t=1s

Adapted by the author from a drawing in the Okinawan Prefectural Museum And then went down to ship, Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea, . . . ~ Ezra Pound, ‘Canto I’