The stories respecting the circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients are lacking in substantial proof; and it seems probable that Cape Non or Cape Bojador was the limit of their southern expeditions.
There is no documentary evidence with regard to the settlement of Jamaica by Juan de Esquivel, or of the circumnavigation of Cuba by Sebastian de Ocampo; and there are but slight allusions to them in the “chroniclers.
This circumnavigationof the globe completed a period of discovery which had begun a hundred years before with the timid, slow attempts of the Portuguese along the coast of Africa.
Thus with enormous suffering and loss of life was accomplished the first circumnavigation of the earth.
Circumnavigation of Peloponnesus by Timotheus with an Athenian fleet—his victory over the Lacedæmonian fleet—his success in extending the Athenian confederacy—his just dealing.
This would be a much quicker way for them than the circumnavigation of Peloponnesus: and it would suggest the same way for the detachment of Stesiklês presently to be mentioned.
The suggestion by some writers that the circumnavigation of Africa took place in the time of Hiram and Solomon [1000 B.
The only way whereby this could be accomplished was by a circumnavigation of the Continent of Africa.
Pigafetta in his relation of the first circumnavigation (VOL.
Just here I should like you to make with me the circumnavigation of our seas from Dunkirk to Biarritz, and to take a survey of our lighthouses.
Under his inspiration and direction was begun that series of voyages of exploration which resulted in the circumnavigation of Africa and the establishment of Portuguese sovereignty over large areas of the coast-lands.
Apart from the reported circumnavigation of the continent, the west coast was well known to the Phoenicians as far as Cape Nun, and c.
The manner in which its coasts converged, south of the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, suggested the idea of a peninsula, the circumnavigation of which might be effected even by the limited resources of the early naval powers.
The plan of the expedition embraced the circumnavigation of the coasts of Lakes Huron, Michigan, and Superior.
Douglass and myself being left, with two canoes, to complete the circumnavigation of the lakes.
By the union of these two parties, the circumnavigation of Lake Michigan had been completely made.
United States, embracing the complete circumnavigation of the great lake basins, and accurate delineations of the sources of the Mississippi, as low down as the influx of the River Wisconsin.
If the circumnavigation of the earth by Magellan did not lead to such splendid material results as the discovery of America and the doubling of the Cape, its moral effects were far more important.
The discovery of the line of no magnetic variation, which, as we shall see, eventually led to the circumnavigation of the earth.
Circumnavigation of Africa, why undertaken by the Egyptian Kings, i.
It gave rise to three great voyages--the discovery of America, the doubling of the Cape, and the circumnavigation of the earth.
The circumnavigation of the earth originated in a dispute between these kingdoms respecting the Molucca Islands, from which nutmegs, cloves, and mace were obtained.
But, though he had thus grandly accomplished his object, it was not given to him to complete the circumnavigation of the globe.
The circumnavigation of the earth is, however, strictly the achievement of the West.
Scherzer (Karl), Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara.
The Museum of Galactic Life About the Author The Mysterious Ninth World While the circumnavigation of the solar system seems farfetched, it may not be once the problem of effective anti-gravitational control is solved.
This is the start of a fantastic adventure that eventually takes Burl, a high-school senior, on the first circumnavigation of the solar system.
Honor bright, what, in your judgment, would have been the effect upon the circumnavigation of the globe?
It is a favorite scheme with others to place the wanderings outside the columns of Hercules, among the Atlantic isles,[372] and to include a circumnavigation of Africa.
The circumnavigationof Africa by Phœnicians at the command of Necho, though described and accepted by Herodotus, can hardly be called an established fact, in spite of all that has been written in its favor.
The continental theory, despite its famous disciples, made no headway at Rome, and was consequently hardly known to the Middle Ages before its falsity was proved by the circumnavigation of Africa.
But, setting aside the ordinary uncertainty of human affairs, a voyage of circumnavigation to-day is no more problematic than a trip from New York to Chicago.
From the two years required for the circumnavigation of the globe in the time of Sir Francis, the progress down to our day was not very rapid.
In 1577, Sir Francis Drake accomplished the circumnavigationof the globe.
His fleet reached the islands of the Indian Archipelago, and returned to Europe by way of the Cape of Good Hope, thus completing the firstcircumnavigation of the globe.
We had finished this by the afternoon of Wednesday, October 4, and next morning the Pram was ready to continue her second circumnavigation of the globe.
Thus we completed the circumnavigationof the island.
Here they had been compelled to remain, devoid of all hopes of returning, until they saw our steam-vessel making its late circumnavigation of the island.
Even after the circumnavigation of the world explorers looked for channels leading through or around the Americas.
Sidenote: First Circumnavigation of the Earth] Very slowly the truth about America was borne in upon the people of Europe.
A ship belonging to Magellan's fleet completes thecircumnavigation of the globe.
