Epox

Hello and welcome back to Epox where I shall be continuing the story of Magellan's

terrific, fantastic, terrible voyage around the world, the first

circumnavigation of the globe. As you might have noticed, I'm in Studio One today because of some

timing and scheduling issues, which I shan't bore you with. But we're in the first studio today

with the epochs-specific video wall. But anyway, enough of that, let's just continue with the story. If you remember

last time, Magellan had lost his second ship out of the Armada of five. It's not a great Armada,

is it? Five ships. It's not really. Usually when you hear the word Armada, you think,

dozens or hundreds even. But anyway, it was five ships and one had been wrecked, hadn't it?

And then he'd lost the second one, or say lost um it had been sort of mutineered and then just sailed home back to spain so he's down to three ships and that was the last sort of thing that

last big event that just happened in in the story that i'm telling here so there's still the

three remaining ones are still in the straight,

what comes to be called the Strait of Magellan, that sort of maze of waterways and fields

that cut through the bottom of South America, that cut through the land of Tierra del Fuego.

So they're still sort of in the middle of that, really. So I'll let Lawrence

Burgring pick up the story. A great book, one of the best books there is on Magellan, although

there are many. There are loads, in fact. This story has been picked through over the centuries

again and again and again. People it's people have found it fascinating

ever since it happened as do I and and I hope you do okay so after that second ship just

sailed back to Spain the San Antonio it does seem that that did sort of knock

Magellan's confidence a little bit I mean how, how could it not, that they were prepared,

or at least some men on board that ship were prepared to do such a drastic action? Because it is

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