DID YOU KNOW
Submitted by DaveI on Tue, 08/11/2009 - 08:14
That Ferdinand Magellan was not the first man to sail around the world? No, for he was killed in a fight with islanders in the Philippines. He died on 27 April 1521 on Mactan Island, Cebu, the Philippines.
So although he had masterminded the first expedition to sail around the world, he did not complete the voyage himself. In fact, the first person to sail around the world was a Malaysian, who had travelled back to Europe with Magellan many years earlier. Later, he accompanied Magellan as an interpreter on the circumnavigation.
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There is a recipe for Cow Pies
• 2 cups (12 ounces) chocolate chips, unsweetened if you like
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1/2 cup raisins
• 1/2 cup slivered almonds
Directions
1. In a double boiler over simmering water, melt the chocolate chips and butter, stirring until smooth.
2. Remove from heat; stir in raisins and almonds.
3. Drop by tablespoonfuls onto waxed paper.
4. Chill until ready to serve.
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6. We do not like nuts so we do not use the almonds. Instead we use 1/2 cup toasted coconut or crushed up dried bananas.
7. Instead of raisins you could use dried fruits of any kind, except maybe banana, you want them semi soft. Cherries, fig,...???
8. Found this addition out on the web: 3 cups rolled oats, 1 cup sweetened coconut. I think the amounts would be to much, but cut it down to 1 cup total maybe and I think it might be good. Or for me just add some
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Enrique, Magellan's slave, did NOT round the world
Magellan's slave's name was "Henrich" in the eyewitness account of Antonio Pigafetta. In the Last Will of Ferdinand Magellan, it is Hispanicized as "Enrique" which is also what appears in official documents of the Spanish official agency, the Casa de Contratacion de las Indias.
He was most definitely Malay although there's room for discussion as to exactly which place he comes from. Pigafetta states he was from Sumatra, Magellan states in his Will that Enrique was from Malacca. A non-eyewitness, Maximilian Transylvanus, who interviewed Enrique's mates who did round the world, wrote the slave came from the Moluccas, which would make him an Indonesian. Maximilian's statement, being not firsthand, would be what we'd call "hearsay" and therefore is the least credible among the three.
Did Enrique circumnavigate the globe? To be precise, let's define "circumnavigate." It means one sails from one longitude and goes around the world ending up in that same longitude where one started. If he's from Malacca, at longitude 112° 30 East, then Enrique would have rounded the world if he had sailed back to that same longitude never mind if not exactly Malacca itself. There is no record he reached that longitude ever. The last written document or even oral testimony puts the slave in Cebu the Philippines on May 31, 1521. Nothing more is said of Enrique beyond that date which is recorded by Pigafetta. Cebu is at longitude 123°13'E. It is 11° short of rounding the globe.
If Enrique was from Sumatra, at 107°55 East, he was short of circumnavigating the globe by 16°.
If he were from the Moluccas, at 127°24'E, he would have overshot, i.e., overcirumnavigated the globe by 4°. If!
Those who contend he is Malaysian (either from Malacca or Sumatra) argue Enrique was able to hop unto a ship sometime after May 1521 and reached his home before Victoria, the last ship of Magellan's Armada, sailed back to Spain in September 1521. The problem with such assertion is it is without support. It's as valid as claiming Enrique did end up somewhere in planet Mars. Both statements are products of imagination, one wild the other out of this world.
There's a very extensive discussion of this issue at Wikipedia which covers the equally popular claim that Enrique came from Cebu and therefore successfully circumnavigated earth on April 7, 1521 when Magellan's fleet arrived at the place. This claim involved the implied claim that all those who wrote Enrique was from some other place lied. That is, Pigafetta, Magellan, Maximilian, and other eyewitnesses such as Gines de Mafra, Bartolome de las Casas, including the official documents, falsified truth.
To know more about this outlandish notion, which victimized many famous authors like Laurence Bergreen, William Manchester, etc., click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique_of_Malacca.
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