You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that anyone has gone.
The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home.
I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.
Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you look into it.
Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.
The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore.
It is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors, to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown.
Most versed in nautical charts, he knew better than any other the true art of navigation.
We had run more than fourteen thousand four hundred and sixty leagues, and we had completed going round the earth from East to West.
In the whole history of human undertakings there is nothing that exceeds this voyage of Magellan's. That of Columbus dwindles away in comparison.
By sailing west until they reached the East, and then sailing on in the same direction, they had fulfilled an ambition as old as the human imagination.
In the year 1497 the king Dom Manuel despatched four ships to make discoveries and search for spices.
We left from Restelo one Saturday, the 8th day of July, on our journey. May God our Lord allow us to complete it in His service.
From there we sailed so far out to sea, without touching any port, that we soon had no water that we could drink.
I Vasco da Gama, who now have been commanded to set out to discover the seas and lands of India and the Orient, do swear on the symbol of this cross.
Our daily ration of water was reduced to a quartilho. In order to eat, we had to cook in salt water.
The captain-major ordered that we should go on shore and try to get provisions in the place.
