Ferdinand magellan biography in marathi goat

So says food historian Felice Prudente Sta. For a long time, I had a hunch that food played a bigger role in the death of Magellan. It was the first time I read an enumeration of the food quota. And it demanded more than a few goats! Pigafetta, by the way, substantiated their findings. The Lapulapu encounter, I now explain, can be interpreted as the Spanish terrorizing to get enough food to reach the spiceries and the islanders defending their food security.

We know, of course, that the Spanish expedition led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, on which he was accompanied by his diarist Pigafetta, was no picnic. With supplies for only two years of travel, they set out to sail in search of a western route to the East Indies from San Lucar de Barrameda in southern Spain on a fleet of four carracks and one caravel manned by to men.

Needless to say, food on the voyage was a logistical nightmare.

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Or they should have been given provisions for 10 more months. But the intrepid Magellan believed they could avoid hunger. After all, the leg along the South American coast offered plentiful fresh food.