Epox!

And welcome back to Epox, where I shall be continuing the story, the incredible story of Magellan's first circumnavigation of the globe.

I should be reading from Lawrence Burgreen over the edge of the world, but also

a bit more from just straight up from Pigafetta himself.

So if you remember last time, we left off with the mutiny in Port St. Julian in the winter,

which is the summer months for us, July, August.

But that's the winter in the Southern Hemisphere.

So there's still more things that happen before we get through to the Strait itself.

So we must mention those.

A few key events.

So they stayed for months in Ports in June.

It really was months, like five months or so.

And at a certain point, Magellan realises that what he could do is take one or two of his

ships and send them at least a little bit further south, a few miles further south, just to explore

just as a type of reconnaissance, just to see if maybe the straight is only a few miles further southward

down the coast. And even if it's not, it would, he decided it was worth the reconnaissance,

just to see if there was sort of a better port, a better inlet, or if there was, you know,

better hunting grounds or anything like that. So he decides to send one of his ships,

which already immediately you can, you can see, is a bit of an odd decision. It's not really all that safe to send

one ship because quite often these ships can help each other out and if one looks like it

might be dashed against the rocks or something, at least the men might have some escape.

But he sent one ship, Santiago. He sends it off further south just on a type of reconnaissance. And it was under the

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