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Magellan, Ferdinand

  1. A Portuguese navigator of the sixteenth century. His crew was the first to sail around the Earth , although Magellan himself was killed on the voyage.


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One of the boldest and most determined of all the early explorers was Ferdinand Magellan, a young Portuguese nobleman.

They did not understand one another, for they had no interpreter, for he had been killed with Ferdinand Magellan.

The first one to do this was a brave admiral named Ferdinand Magellan.

Three years later Ferdinand Magellan, on his epoch-making voyage around the world, visited the coast of Uruguay.

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