Magellan and the First Voyage Around the World BBC Documentary

0:02 500 years ago an unrecognizable ship arrived in the port of Seville its crew was reduced to just 18 emaciated and starving men but this ship just complet Ed a voyage of huge importance changed the course of history the shape the way we live even today it was 1522 and the Victoria had just become the first ship to

0:48 circumnavigate the [Music] globe this Voyage opened up the last great ocean Crea new trade routes and revealed the true scale of our [Music] planet it was a Triumph of the human Spirit an epic tale of courage and endurance starvation and Mutiny heroism and [Music] [Applause] death and it turned one man Ferdinand mcgillan into one of the most celebrated explorers in the history of the world [Music] world but behind the legend of this

1:35 great Voyage of Discovery lies another [Music] story this is the Nao Victoria perfect replica of one of M ships he lost me timing thenc it is 1 two three okay thank you Jose that's Jose is the ship's Captain he's figured out already I can't

2:21 [Applause] count nearly 500 years on this modern replica is circling the globe itself to celebrate one of the most challenging Voyages of Maritime history and the men who made that Journey as an adventure of myself you know I've climbed on Everest spent 20 years in the most remote polar regions yet the hardships I've known are nothing just absolutely nothing compared to what those men experienced [Applause] melan's epic Voyage is legendary yet the real story is rarely told he never

3:07 intended to circumnavigate the world but a series of extraordinary events turned what was an ambitious Voyage into a truly historic [Music] one melan's great Voyage started on the 21st of September 1519 when they set sail from Spain into the unknown and the ship's chronicler Antonio piger feta recorded moment just F on the right page and he wrote

3:54 this the fleet having been furnished with all the was necessary for it and having in the five ships people of diverse Nations to the number of 241 in all was ready to depart and firing all the artillery we set [Music] sail for melan the captain General this Voyage was the realization of a dream that had been 5 years in the [Music] making this tough and determined Portuguese was taking the biggest gamble

4:42 of his life fame fortune and survival itself depended on the outcome of the expedition [Music] among the officers of the fleet was an ambitious ship's Master called Juan Sebastian elano this young Spaniard was to play a crucial role in the Epic [Music] Voyage mcallen's goal was purely commercial to find a Spanish trade route to the world's most precious commodity

5:27 spices in the 16th century they were worth more than gold but for Spain they were unreachable in 1494 the pope had divided the world between the two greatest sea powers on Earth Spain had the trading rights over the Western half of the world while Portugal controlled the East and with it the only known route to the unimaginable Riches of the Spice Islands the modern day [Music] malus melan's bold idea was to find a Westward route to The Spice Islands through Spanish

6:13 Waters it was an incredible plan such a sea rout had never been sail before and no one even knew if it existed if he could find The elusive route Spain would become the richest nation in the world and melum would share that wealth he commissioned a fleet of five robust trading ships carracks specially designed to navigate the treacherous Waters of the Open Seas well are you sure you're taking the the correct I think I'm doing the right look it says 260 nearly right it's close in a global context is it yeah in context what do

6:59 you think get doing fine the steering mechanism was simple the rudder connected to a wheel that was attached to a long wooden shaft holding the course was all about brute strength I'm actually on course at a minute but it's not very easy you know on a modern boat there's a lot of feedback between the rudder and the tiller or the wheel this thing's called a whip star Arrangement and it's not easy to stay on course at all even in calm conditions like this I'm on course at a minute the course that melum was planning would take him Beyond chart of

7:45 waters into the unknown it was a journey that many believed was impossible yes okay here I'm just talking about Miguel and they're off on the the fleet on this great journey to get all these incredibly valuable spices and I just want to talk to you about how easy or hard it must have been to get them well very very difficult because obviously uh there were no charts of any description and I understand it wasn't even on the maps those days no there was no Maps proper Maps really it was big with the map here which is from about the same period okay as you can see this is a bit of the Brazilian Coast okay uh few of the islands in the Caribbean already planted by Columbus and his followers and then

8:32 this blob of land which he finishes here oh south south of um of Cape of Good Hope but not much so this was an unknown area for the those days for the map makers it completely unknown what a great Act of Faith that there might even be a way through it it really was an incredible leap of faith because as far as anybody knew melan's proposed route was completely blocked by the vast South American continent according to accounts from the time mallan claimed that he knew of a

9:20 passage below the land mass of South America and that would take the fleet through to the Spice Islands well maybe he did know or maybe the whole thing was nothing but a supreme gamble whatever the truth he kept it close to his [Music] chest melan never revealed the source of his belief in the existence of a passage but it probably came from rumors that abounded in the secretive world of 16th century Navigators the captain General did not wholly declare the voyage which he wished to make lest the people from astonishment

10:07 and fear refused to accompany him on so long a voyage as he had in mind to undertake in view of the great and violent storms of the ocean sea with he would go this isn't to keep the crew in the dark was extremely dangerous and it would come close to destroying the entire mission so what was it about this obsessive and determined man that drove him to take such an incredible [Music] risk Manuel VES boess is a direct descendant of miguelon and a bit of an expert on his famous ancestor been trying to understand the man himself um how would you describe him a

10:54 man of contrasts I would say he was physically short very sure of himself not an assuming man he is not a man that one sees bragging about his aristocracy or anything like that a man of little few words a man who obviously paid attention to his family and cared about his family um very little more is known the man disappears behind the the project one thing that is known about McAllan is that he spent 8 years as a soldier with the Portuguese Fleet in the Indian Ocean here he earned a reputation as a fighter a risk taker and a glory Seeker

11:40 but returned home to less than a hero's welcome he arrives back in Portugal and he's slighted he slighted by by the court and he says okay I've been slighted I'm going to do something which will prove these people completely wrong I'm going to finish the task that Columbus started and didn't finish and in the process emulate what vas had done around Africa I will do around South America in melan's youth these two great Navigators had risked everything in the search for spices and earned a place in history and they inspired mcelin to claim for himself the last great untried

12:28 sea voyage around South [Music] America achieving this extraordinary ambition became his [Applause] obsession but he must have had some self-doubts he must have um leaders of such nature and of such Expeditions are Lonely by definition these are lonely jobs I don't think he ever let anybody understand that he was not quite sure exactly of the existence of the passage when finally he led the fleet South it was the first time he had ever captained a [Music] ship his first challenge was the

13:15 notorious Atlantic an ocean that ACC claimed many [Music] lives on October the 3rd 1519 the weather worsened many Furious squalls of wind and currents of water struck us head on and as we could not advance and in order that the ships might not be wrecked all the sails were struck and in this manner did we wander hither and yawn on the sea waiting for the Tempest to cease for it was very Furious

14:06 I've been at a sea in some really foul weather but it's always been on a modern boat and with that modern safety net that we have satellite phones satellite communication satellite GPS even emergency beacons you press the button and you can get some help old boats like this melan's boats they had none of that the sense of risk must have been absolutely enormous on a ship like this in big Seas there's a lot of rolling going on they're quite rounded these holes like an upturned

14:51 shell melum was sailing through some of the most dangerous seas in the world it's a great day sailing for me it's exciting but for mallon's men crossing the Atlantic the conditions would have been much worse than this and it would have been truly frightening it must have felt as if the storms were never going to end the ships were already showing signs of where and they were getting battered in one particular storm the wind was so strong that even with the sails rolled up furled up the wind got in there and ripped the sails to shreds and of course mcgillan was passionate about this Voyage he's a driven man but the men were at the Wit's End exhausted and the sense of fear of

15:38 the unknown it's no surprise to me they began praying for some kind of divine intervention and you know it's exactly what they did get during these storms the body of St anel approached us several times on the night which was very dark in a time of bad weather the said saint appeared in the form of a lighted torch at the height of the main top and remain there more than 2 hours and a half to the comfort of a soul for we were in tears expecting only the hour of death and when the Holy Light was about to leave us it was so bright at the eyes of all

16:24 that we were for more than a quarter of an hour as Blind Men calling for [Music] Mercy this strange and dramatic phenomenon is called s anels or St Elmo's Fire and I've seen this phenomena bringing boats back across the Atlantic I've seen this bright light at the M really surprising thought it might just be a little flash but it hangs around for over a minute what actually happens is in a big thunderstorm the clouds become highly negatively charged and in the end the whole voltage tension adds up to about 30,000 volts per square cm and then it all discharges in a spectacular fashion from the ends of masts and end of pointy bits on a

17:12 boat now when these men saw this they noticed that it always came near the end of a storm and it does it always occurs towards the end of a storm so naturally they would think this is a great sign this is divine intervention [Applause] divine intervention or not these men were at the end of their physical limits and as any modern day Explorer will tell you it's not the exhausted body that gets you in the end it's the mind and this perceived visitation from a saint would have had a profound effect and it would have pushed them on through their ordeal [Music]

18:00 almost 4 months after leaving Spain The Battered Fleet approached the coast of South [Music] America they made landfall at a wild Bay near a place that would one day become Rio de Janeiro from here they followed the sweeping Coast South and along the way piga feta recorded many strange and wonderful things there are an infinite number of [Music]

18:47 parents also some little cat monkeys having almost the appearance of a lion also flying fish so many of them that it seemed it was an island in the sea and men and women who paint themselves with fire all over their bodies and faces and eat the Flesh of their [Music] enemies eventually they reached the very edge of the Known World 35° South as far down the coast of South America as any Westerner had ever been evidence suggests this was where miguelon expected to find the passage

19:33 the coastline turned sharp West and there seemed to be no land to the South which place was formerly named Cape St Mary and it was thought from then there was a passage to the Sea of Sir the south sea after 15 days of exploration the Dreadful truth dawned this was not the fabled passage but a gigantic Inlet that stretched around 300 km in land and was almost 200 wide it was the mouth of the River

20:19 Plate it was a disaster melan had sailed into a dead end now his certainty about the passage was shot to pieces but turning back was Unthinkable he made an extraordinary decision to step over the edge of the known world to sail on where no other European had gone before blindly he headed south along a desolate Coast that he named Patagonia into some of the wildest seas in the world and into winter [Music]

21:04 on the now Victoria I asked Enrique baragan what it must have been like for melan's men Enrique how you well what were conditions like here on Deck well now we are 20 people but at that time they were 40 or 45 right so there there were plenty of people and as you may know we have some we have beds for all of us but they didn't have them so they just have had to find a place on the deck to sleep right out here on back 45 of them and when we've been rolling we've had a fair bit of water across the deck here so imagine when there were storms and bad weather you know the water comes in the whole time on the deck always wet so imagine how how it it was really

21:53 really hard for them wow and it was about to get even harder there are hundreds if not thousands of possible routs through many of them would be small inlets some great Rivers some huge blind bays and they would all have to be checked out and I can't imagine how hard it would be in poor weather to get partway up there and turn these boats which aren't very maneuverable turn them around and head them out to sea they continued South for 3 months with no sign of a way through supplies were running low and

22:40 the days were growing shorter on March the 31st 1520 just a few days sailing from Antarctica they sought shelter in a bay they called St Julian the men were cold hungry and exhausted and Morel had hit rock [Music] bottom when melan reduced rations it was the final blow his captains presented him with a petition demanding to return to Spain this was not an option for a man who had gambled everything on finding The Passage through South America

23:33 down the expedition was now in the gravest Jeopardy melan had lost the hearts and minds of some of his captains and therefore his men the cold the hunger the lack of faith in their Ki Captain General all added up to just one thing mutiny no one of the Ring leaders was Gasper Casada captain of the concepion who promised the men they would return to Spain once melum was out of the way melum was

24:21 isolated he had to act quickly he dispatched his loyal Master at Arms to one of the mutinous captains with a special message a with the captain dispatched the

25:07 leaderless crew quickly caved in the gallon took control of the ship and then blocked the other ships from escaping and from this position he was able to quill the [Music] Mutiny but he had to re assert his authority quickly and convincingly he made a brutal example of the treacherous Captain Casada [Music]

26:02 there could be no doubt the captain General was back in charge with the mutineers put in their place it was time to try and settle in for the winter an incredibly dismal experience food would have been extremely scarce I know it's like to be short on food on Expedition it's happened to me a few times one occasion of note hav being high on a mountain in Alaska the food been so short after many days we spent four days in an ice cave living on soup made out of toothpaste conditions became even worse

26:48 one of the fleet the Santiago was smashed to pieces on the Rocks but nothing seemed to sway melan from his obsession [Music] [Applause] after 7 months waiting out the winter it was finally time to move on and look for the elusive passage the four surviving ships pushed further south along the Uncharted Patagonian Coastline trying every possible Inlet without [Music] success finally mallon's men spotted a clue whalebones this was a great sign as indicated a possible migration route

27:35 through to the Open Sea that everybody hoped lay [Music] ahead on the 21st of October 1520 we found by a miracle a straight which we called the Cape of the 11,000 virgins after nearly a year they found an inlet and it reached deep into the interior and something even more exciting the water tasted salty so it must mean that somehow the inlet must connect with another salt [Music] sea hoping that this might at last be the way through to the east the whole

28:22 Fleet set off at the Western end was a long narrow passage leading to a bay and another passage beyond that they headed on into the Straits what they found was an extraordinary Maze of islands and potential dead [Music] ends this stet was a circular Place surrounded by mountains up and to most of those in the ships it seemed that there was no way out of

29:19 it as the endless search continued melan's men became convinced that this was yet another hopeless Quest miguelon lost his second ship but this time it wasn't due to weather the San Antonio headed back to Spain in an act of rebellion it was a devastating blow the San Antonio was carrying most of the provisions that melum was relying on for the journey ahead he ordered the remaining three ships to proceed Northwest by

30:07 West it was a terrifying journey through a straight we now know to be 530 kilm long it took 38 frustrating days of searching before miguelon finally got the news he'd been waiting foran [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause]

31:00 [Music] ahead was the Open Sea [Music] he had found the fabled passage the captain General wept for joy and called it Cape Des for we had been Desiring it for a very long

31:47 [Music] time in that proud moment mcgalla must have realized without doubt he now stood shoulder toh shoulder with his great Boyhood Heroes Columbus and Vasco de G his dreams had come [Music] true even in this moment of personal Triumph melan could hardly have guessed at the historic significance of finding the passage for 100 years his route the melan straight would be the major shipping route through to the Pacific it

32:34 was only bettered when the Panama Canal was blasted out of the land in 1914 it was an astonishing Discovery but miguelon and his men hoped it was the Prelude to something even greater the Western route to The Riches of the Spice Islands on November the 28th 1520 mcellon led the fleet North the weather was good and the Sea so calm he named it the Pacific the peaceful sea the sky was huge and the Horizon

33:19 stretched endlessly [Music] even the sky at night was different these God-fearing Sailors wandered at

34:05 the Southern Cross and noticed something strange in the heavens there are several small Stars clustered together in the manner of two clouds and in the middle of them are two stars not very bright and they move slightly nearly 400 years later these Stellar clusters were identified as two of the closest galaxies to the Earth the magalen clouds have helped astronomers work out the Scale of the Universe and witness the death of [Music] stars on December the 18th 1520 the

34:52 fleet turned Northwest Into the Heart of the Pacific unknowingly mcelin had just made a serious error he thought he was within 3 days sailing of the Spice Islands but that belief was based on maps of the then Known World and these were based on the work of the second century scholar Tommy who estimated the circumference of the earth to be about 299,000 [Music] km the captain General was about to discover the hard way that Tommy was out by over 11,000 kilm this missing area 28% of the world

35:38 circumference is the Pacific melum was leading his men into a vast empty Ocean on the modern now Victoria our captain Jose has some idea of what that Journey must have been like you've crossed the Pacific many times you've crossed Pacific on here trying to think you you have anybody would understand what Miguel's men would have gone through to have entered the biggest ocean in the world and not known how big it was and just day after day after day of uncertainty I can imagine how much they

36:24 suffer and what went through their minds not knowing when they were going to reach any land if they were going to reach any land so uh it must have been very very tall on them and and probably the weaker men must have felt that you know the the head was going off and the lack of food the the food diminishing the scaving setting in the water lousy foul because the wood contaminates the water they must have been very very hard on there but obviously the the Comm of Magan a strong man and very tough with the cruise they probably kept the the whole thing going [Applause]

37:13 on as the weeks passed the emaciated Crews began to starve again their accounts make disturbing [Applause] reading we at the oxides which were under the the main yard so that the yard should not break the rigging and we at Old biscuits turned to powder all full of worms and stinking of urine which the rats had made on it and of the rats which were sold for half an echo a piece some of us could not get enough I believe that never more will any man undertake to make such a

38:04 voyage by late January 1521 melan had led the fleet Northwest across thousands of kilometers of open ocean without relief we saw no land except two small uninhabited islands where we found only birds and trees and there is no place for anchoring because no bottom can be found months later with no land in sight even melan must have had doubts

38:58 but almost 5 months and 20,000 km after they exited the Straits they finally made landfall at about 10° north of the equator in a place we now call the Philippines in an astonishing feet of navigation mcelin had led the fleet to safety The Spice Islands were now no more than a few days sail to the South it seemed that his great gamble would pay off the islands of the Philippines must have looked like paradise there was fresh water Lush rainforests filled with fruit and the local people seemed to welcome [Music]

39:45 them melan set about securing the route to The Spice Islands by claiming the Philippines for Spain his most effective tool was Christianity he knew that to convince these people to adopt this religion he had to persuade them that it's worth their while to do so one of the arguments he used was of the invincibility which would derive from it and this invincibility was demonstrated by the strength of his Armament the blast of the Cannons terrified the natives and gave a measure of his power when attempting and succeeding in baptizing and christianizing the local inhabit melan is at the same time ensuring that

40:30 through this religious conversion they implicitly accept their status of subordinate to the Spanish Crown seen here as the ultimate symbol of worldly Authority and religious virtue really like tight structured framework as which to live by live by these rules live by these rules obey to these people submit yourself to these people and you will be invincible so would it have been perhaps colonization the very Beginnings the foundations of colonization it would have taken many decades for the following Spanish fleets to effectively transform the Philippines into a Spanish colony but that's that was the foundation upon which they built

41:18 it confident of his faith and his Invincible Weaponry the captain general made a fateful decision to show his support for a local chief he decided to attack the Rival chief of mtan Island lau lau who had refused to be baptized into the Christian faith aboard the Victoria on the evening before the attack his men were relaxed and confident

42:05 but on mtan island lau lau was taking melan's threats seriously he summoned his most ferocious Warriors and invoke the gods of War [Music] the events that followed are replayed every year in the place where mcelin and lau lau confronted each [Music] other it was a clash of cultures and

42:52 religion for Filipinos it's come to symbolize the struggle for indep [Applause] attendance before the battle mcelin sent emissaries across these Peaceful Waters to try to get lau lau to submit to Christianity and to Spanish rule once more he refused and so at dawn on the 27th of April 1521 miguelon and 50 of his men arrived on the beach at mtan to do battle against lau lau and a thousand of his men although was heavily outnumbered mcallum felt certain of Victory because

43:39 of his Superior Spanish weapons and his armor in fact he was so confident of victory that he given a direct order to his other captains to not get involved in the fighting but he made a fatal mistake he'd arrived at low tide which me his ships were right out there in the deep water and melan and his men had had an exhausting half mile Wade through the shallows and his Cannon were out of [Applause] range as a battle ensued the gall's men soon started

44:25 running out of ammunition and Lapu lau's men surged forward they spotted melan one of them with a large Javelin thrust it into his left leg by he fell downward on this they all at once rushed on him with lances of iron and of bamboo Miguel and fought a brave fight he hung on for a long time he eventually completely outnumbered he was just slaughtered they slew our mirror our light our comfort and our great guide miguelin never circumnavigated the

45:12 globe he didn't even reach the Spice Islands his dreams ended here in the Philippines this was a complete tragedy which terminates everything his entire dream his planning his voyage all the dramas of the navigation through the Venice oceans end here and end here totally so what do you think if miguelon had won this battle how would the Expedition have turned out in the end had he not died and had he found the Spice Islands which were very near my guess is that he would have come back the same way he went through the Pacific

45:57 which had been never been done before and it is most likely knowing the ocean that he might have lost the entire fleet and himself and with that nothing would have remained of this epic Voyage mallon's dreams may have died in the Philippines but his legacy lives on in in this Dusty little Shrine you can still see the cross he raised so hopefully when he first arrived on these islands it's one of the holiest relics in one of the most Catholic countries in the world it might have been the only relic of melan's voyage if another man hadn't

46:44 seized the chance of Fame and Fortune melan's death could have spelled the end for the Expedition but the remaining men knew the Spice Islands were so close they could almost smell the spices reduced to two ships the survivors set off to find the islands taking command of the Victoria was a popular new leader Juan Sebastian elano history was to deny him his rightful role in this epic

47:29 story elcano brought Good Fortune for at last they cited The Spice Islands the 28,000 km Journey had cost the lives of over 100 men including the captain General but the surviving crew finally reached the Spice Islands and realized melan's dream [Applause] [Music]

48:28 this is what it's all about spices these are cloves right they're cloves they're the flowers of the clove FL they don't look very familiar though but they the we more uh see them as like this the dried ones yeah yes it's not just like my Mom's Apple Pie yes they're aromatic but you know I can't help but but the thing this austo is that holding these in my hand seems hard to believe that the men went to such risk and pain and suffering for something that seems to be honest completely ordinary and how much would would they have been worth I mean pound for pound or pound for pound that would be um comeand a high price imagine that clob tree could produce only 7 lb per tree and the he still have to dry them and therefore the dried ones would

49:14 be very expensive and in relation to Gold how about yes so they'll be U more weight more than gold itself so pound for pound pound for pound it's worth more than gold and a bag like that excuse me that has set a man up for life right yes well put like that I guess they don't seem quite so [Music] ordinary elano and his men understood the value of the ton of spices loaded onto each ship and they knew that to make their fortunes they had to get them back to Spain the remaining two ships had to make a choice between returning the way they had come or continuing West taking

49:59 their chances in enemy Waters one chose to go east and the other West the Trinidad headed eastwards across the Pacific but it didn't get far before it fell into Portuguese hands the precious cargo was seized the ship burned and the crew thrown into jail elano sailed West on the Victoria Spain was about 20,000 km away

50:44 and the entire route lay in the Portuguese sphere of [Music] influence to avoid capture he navigated vast tracks of of uncharted [Music] [Applause] waters 2 months and almost 5,000 km later they encountered terrible storms the storms then when went through was so powerful but actually broke this MK unlike everything that broke on the

51:29 ship had to be repaired with what they had at Sea and not only that okano and his men began to run dangerously low on rations again I can't imagine what it would be like to work a ship like this which needs a lot of manual labor and be that low on energy [Music] the starving men began to develop [Music] scurvy above all our other misfortunes the worst was that the gums of the upper and lower teeth of our men swelled so much that they could not eat

52:17 25 or 30 men fell sick of whom 19 died scurvy is caused by a lack of vitamin C and here was the terrible irony the crew were sitting on a cargo of clothes and what they didn't know was that it contained vitamin C and this would have saved [Music] them as a ship headed back to Spain more than half of them would die of scurvy or starvation [Music] elano escaped the scurvy because he ate spoonfuls of quench jelly unknown to him

53:04 this contained enough vitamin C to protect him from the [Music] disease it's probably what enabled piga feta to keep writing his diary and without this we would never have known of Alano's great feat of nav ation he led the Victoria across vast oceans past the Cape of Good Hope and the Cape Verde Islands back to Spain of the 241 men who began the Journey Only a handful returned with [Music] him they lived to tell the remarkable tale of the Spanish sailor who finished

53:50 the journey melon had started 3 years before you got f [Music] on Monday the 8th of September 1,522 we cast anchor near the mole of sevill and we were only 18 men for the most part sick of the 60 who had left maaka [Music] the Victoria became the first ship to circumnavigate the globe it had turned

54:35 what until then was just pure theory that the Earth was round into an indisputable fact elano was honored with a special coat of arms declaring him to be the first man to sail around the world 5 centuries later sailing around the globe is still a remarkable [Music] achievement as the modern Victoria returns to sevil at the end of its 40,000 km Journey its crew greeted as

55:21 Heroes after more than 500 Days at Sea on a journey they will never forget [Applause] I still can't believe that we we circumnavigate the whole world I cannot imagine right now but I'm sure it has changed completely my life a realization of my dreams to the OST [Applause]

56:08 The Voyage of the original Victoria may have made history but it didn't fulfill the hopes of the crew they never made their fortunes the cargo of spices was sold and the proceeds seized by the king of Spain to cover the loss of the rest of the fleet the chronicler piga feta was snub by the Spanish cord and returned to his native Italy his Diaries Remain the definitive record of the great Voyage elano attempted a second circumnavigation to claim the Spice Islands for Spain 4 years later but he didn't make it crossing the Pacific he died of scurvy

56:57 [Music] as for Ferdinand mccellan himself although he never completed the voyage the popular perception is that he was the first person to circumnavigate the world unless that is you go to Spain and I tell you the first person who sailed around the world was one Sebastian El Caro but does it really matter after all they're both great men Miguel and had what it took to dream up such a daring voyage and make it happen and elano had the strength and tenacity to finish it they and the men who sailed with them shared one of the greatest Voyages of Discovery the voyage that would define

57:43 the shape and size of our earth and its oceans and change the geographical spiritual and political landscape forever [Music] [Applause] [Music]