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Maritime Exploration Haley Guarnera Essay Unit 3 C. Michelle Brock Date
September 19, 2017 Ferdinand Magellan and Sir Francis Drake both
circumnavigated1 around the world. Although Magellan went first and Drake
followed in his footsteps. The two faced many problems but also made may
discoveries. Although they traveled almost the same path they had their
differences. These voyages in the 1500’s created many new things and
brought many new discoveries to us. Their ways of handling situations were
different and the risk they were willing to take were as well. I will start by
writing about Ferdinand Magellan's Voyage that was from 1519 to 1522. One
of the five ships of Magellan’s voyage was named Victoria, Victoria voyaged
from Spain to the Philippines and returned with spices. Throughout the
voyage of Magellan him and the crew were able to discover many things in
different places. One big thing was spices, they were mostly used for
flavoring and preserving food and also masked the taste of meat that had
gone bad, some spices were spices cinnamon, clove, nutmeg and especially
black pepper. One of Magellan’s well known crew members was Antonio
Pigafetta, a Venetian scholar, he accepted the title of
"supernumerary2" and a modest salary. He became an assistant
of Magellan and kept an accurate journal. While sailing down the coast of
South America Magellan and his crew ran into a few problems. On minor
problem was the climate change as they traveled south, the crew had to get
used to