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Hello and welcome back to epochs where I shall be once again continuing my story, the long story of Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe, the first people,

the first Europeans, probably the first people ever to circumnavigate the globe, going west so far that you come back to where you started in Seville, in Spain. So if you remember last

time, Magellan himself had been killed. He'd got himself

chopped up by Lapu Lapu's men in the Philippines. So, well, we should continue the story from there.

And of course, the first thing is, who is going to be the next leader of the expedition, de Malukas?

Right? They still haven't even got to the Spice Islands,

which are in modern day Indonesia, right? So they're in the right part of the world,

they're in the right region, the Philippines and Indonesia aren't too far from each other,

in the grand scheme of things, on the scale of the whole world. They're quite close, but still,

in reality, there's still hundreds and hundreds of miles from each other. So they've got

to pick a new leader, sort all that out and get to Indonesia. And remember, they don't know exactly

where these islands are. They're sort of fabled. There has been a Portuguese person that's been there before,

but they don't have the full intelligence. They certainly don't have a map or a chart of exactly

where these islands are. So they're pretty sure they're real and they are real. But they don't know

exactly where they are. They just know they're sort of in that region. They have to keep sort of asking

along the way, just asking Indigenous peoples and Indigenous tribes and chieftains. We've heard of islands where there's like the clove tree and cinnamon trees and you can get pepper there and mace.

Where are they? And some know, some don't, some send them the wrong way

and some genuinely help them out. So, okay, let's continue the story. I thought there would be

one more episode of epochs doing this. They'll probably have to be two, because where I've

been doing the reading, I could just sweep through the rest of the story a year or more, or much more, to go, and lots and lots of adventures, I could just sort of montage through it all. But as soon as we've come this far, I thought, let's not, you know, do the whole story and injustice by just whipping through all the adventures that are still to go. You know, they're not even at the Spice Island yet, aren't they? They're still in the Philippines. So probably be two more

episodes, I think, of epochs covering all this. So, okay, let's pick up the story. Once

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