Apple QuickTime movie | 1997-05-28 | 1.7 MB | 400x280 | 5fps | 2 minutes, 20 seconds
Transcription: In 1519, the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan sailed in the service of Spain to seek a new route to the Spice Islands of the East Indies. After a three-month voyage across the Atlantic, Magellan's fleet of five ships made a landfall on the coast of Brazil. Exploring southward, the expedition spent the winter in a sheltered bay on the coast of Patagonia where Magellan suppressed an attempted mutiny and executed the captain of one of his ships. The voyage was resumed in the spring but one vessel ran aground and had to be abandoned. Its crew spread among the rest of the fleet. In October M ...
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