As
told by the survivors. Pictured is the
southernmost point of the South American mainland. After Magellan’s death in the Philippines Antonio Pigafetta took command. As the expedition lay off the South African
coast, he writes,
Some of our men, and among them the sick, would
have liked to land at a place belonging to the Portuguese called Mozambique,
both because the ship made much water and because of the great cold which we
suffered; and much more because we had nothing but rice-water for food and
drink, all the meat of which we had made provision having putrefied, for the
want of salt had not permitted us to salt it. But the greater number of us,
prizing honor more than life itself, decided on attempting at any risk to
return to Spain.
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