Epox!

And welcome back to Epox, where once again I shall be continuing my story, the narrative

of Ferdinandemge Magellan's terrifying circumnavigation

of the globe, the first man ever to sail around the world. Last time, if you remember,

I think we left off just about where his four remaining ships had found the inlet or the mouth,

the opening to the Straits of Magellan. Obviously Obviously now they're called the Straits of Magellan.

Then it was just an uncharted strait.

They were looking for a way through South America to get to the ocean on the other side.

They knew there would be an ocean on the other side, the Pacific.

But no one had ever really gone, no one at all had gone around the bottom of South America, which actually

Drake does a bit later in the century. What is it? The 1570s, Drake does that. Drake doesn't

take the straits through Magellan. He just sells all the way around the entire bottom of

South America. But Magellan's looking for the fastest way through, convinced that there's a straight

through, which there is's a straight through,

which there is. And so they've found it now. They're reasonably sure. There's various ways to tell the way sort of the tide flows. And if the water is deep enough and if it's salty, if it's not,

you know, if it's if it's fresh water, then it almost certainly won't be a

straight through to another ocean. There's various ways to tell, and they, they sort of were

convinced rightly that this was a straight through the, the South American continent, through

to the other side. So, let's pick up the story from about there. Or actually

quickly, just to say, I think last time we left off, where we hadn't, they hadn't quite

reached that straight. So a few little details about how they finally find it. There was a few more

weeks from leaving Paul St. Julian, if you remember that, it's still a few more weeks sailing down

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