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report on juan sebastian elcano. Juan Sebastian Elcano was born in Guetaria,
Spain in 1476. He was a navigator. Trying to find an ...
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Juan Sebastian Elcano was born in Guetaria, Spain in 1476. He was a
navigator. Trying to find an excuse from the King (Charles the fifth, Holy
Roman Emperor), he signs on as a lower class general to Ferdinand
Magellan's expedition to sail around the world. He and five other ships
sailed to find another faster way from Spain's western side. On the way
there the commander of the expedition died in the Philippines in April 1521,
due to that Juan Sebastian Elcano to over of the expedition and started to
sail.
During that time he was half way done and almost all of the food was
gone, they lowered the amount that everyone would get and because of that
people started to die out of starvation but the higher class people got more t
hen everyone else to make sure the will stay health and alive to keep the
voyage alive. Out of about 265 some odd people only 235 was alive that
time. Since more people started dieing everyone would get more food
,because there was a lot less people alive.
Out of the five ships only one was still sailing and it was the Victoria the
ship that Juans was on. There was no more food left and no one knew what
to do,so they started to eat material mostly leather and that is what they
survived on through
the voyage. They ate the leather off of the sails and because
of that people started to die and it quickly went from 235 to 150 and from
100 to 50 until There was only 18 people it was Juan and his 17 crew
members.
On September 6, 1522, Elcano sailed into Sanlúcar de Barrameda,
Spain, on the Victoria, along with 17 other survivors of the 265 man
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