Epox!

Hello and welcome back to another episode of Epox,

where I shall be continuing the story, the narrative, all about Magellan's

terrifying circumnavigation

of the globe. If you remember last time, we left off. I was just about to tell you the story

of the Great Mutiny at Port St. Julian. Remember that? It was the winter in the southern hemisphere,

so the summer months for us in the northern hemisphere, but it's actually winter down there, because

they're off the coast of Argentina, essentially. So the weather's so bad, there's so many

storms, terrible, terrible storms that their tiny little wooden ships just will get battered

to pieces eventually. So they have to winter, in inverted commas, in a safe harbour or a safe inlet.

And Magellan decides he's found one, they call it Port St. Julian.

And it's over those winter months that there is a mutiny or the main big mutiny.

And this is one of the set piece moments in the three-year voyage, to have the really big

events.

If you have just a 10 or 15 minute overview of Magellan's voyage, this will get mentioned.

Okay, so it's a big thing.

If you remember before earlier in the voyage, there had been a type of aborted mutiny.

Shortly after they left, some of the other captains, some of the Castilian, Spanish

captains were unhappy with Magellan and they started being a bit insubordinate.

But it never really turned into a full mutiny and Magellan sort of quashed it.

And yeah, it never became a full thing. But here

it does. So we'll get into that. I'm going to be reading from Lawrence Burgreens over the

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