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- Title:
- Extreme Hunger Notwithstanding
- Description:
- In preparation for the trip to Seville, the 2 ships stocked bamboo tubes taller than a person filled with drinking water. They may have had goats, but certainly no pork since they were in an Islamic sultanate. Maybe they carried unripe bananas, coconuts, rice, sagho, dried fish. Only the Victoria would continue on. The Trinidad, suddenly leaking badly, would attempt to retrace the Pacific and South American route after making repairs. Meanwhile, the winds were favourable to sail west. On February 11, 1522 Victoria left Timor, the last island with fresh supplies. As they crossed from the South Sea to Africa, as Pigafetta wrote: because they had no salt their food putrified. If Portuguese spotted them, their clove and maps would be confiscated. They would all be taken prisoners. After 9 weeks rounding the Cape of Good Hope in tempestuous seas they reached the Atlantic Ocean. They had broken a mast and were leaking. Being in waters where it was legal for them, they stopped at a Portuguese port on Cape Verde Islands for food feigning they had been exploring Spanish America and were heading home. The ruse worked but not for long. Leaving 13 of their men still ashore, Elcano and all who had remained aboard sailed off to avoid the Portuguese sure to give chase. When the Victoria reached Spain on September 6, 1522 only 18 of the 237 original crew who began the trip on August 10, 1519 were alive. Of the 13 natives from Tidore who helped navigate only 4 made it. Sebastian Elcano, a Basque native, had brought the Victoria home. They had completed the first circumnavigation against all odds: an unknown route, bad weather, mutiny, warring natives, fear of the unknown, sickness, and prolonged hunger. Humanity was victorious. ctto Commemorative coin featuring the Victoria.
- Subjects:
- Victoria Trinidad Antonio Pigafetta Sebastian Elcano
- Exhibition:
- Magellan Menu
- Source:
- Commemorative coin featuring the Victoria.
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Extreme Hunger Notwithstanding", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll013.html