5 days at sea

1st day at sea

May 7, 1519

Its the first day at sea. There are about 250 to 300 other men on this ship and most of us are jjust ordinary sailors so we all have to sleep on the open deck. We had to eat all the fresh food before we started our voyage. So what I ate today was salted meat.

life at sea

Jul 19, 1519

I haven't gotten much sleep at all because of the pain in my legs. Plus all the other guys are in pain and so they're screaming about it. But to add to that, my watch adn I have been working alot of shifts, pumping the sea water out, moving the sails, scrubing the decks,and mending the sails. That stuff wears you out.

Seville

Aug 10, 1519

It is the capital and the largest city autonomous community of Andalusia. Seville was founded as the roman city of hispalis and was known as ishbiliya. Inhabitents of the city are known as sevillanos.

Tenerife

Sep 29, 1519

It is the largest adn most populous island of teh seven Canary Islands. It is also th emost populated island of spain. It has the highest elevation of spain.

life at sea

Nov 25, 1519

My gums are all rotted and its giving out a black and putrid blood. Most the mens gums are like this now. Also must of us have scurvy, which is a disease casued by lack of essetial vitamins. it turns your legs black. I am forced to use my knife to cut my flesh to release the black adn foul blood everyday.

Rio De Janeiro

Dec 26, 1519

It is the secnd largest city in Brazil and the sixth largest city in the americas.

Sea life

Jan 9, 1520

We had a prety fierce storm the other day, it was pretty wild. I've never been so scared in my life. Today i had to look out in th ecrows nest for 4 hours, which is the normal work time. Then I had to do 4 hours of scrubbing the decks. I didnt get to eat for 3 days straight, until today, we had fish and hard ships biscuits with gross yellow water.

St. Christopher

Feb 3, 1520

To the north of the west indies' island chain known as the Lesser Antilles. In additon to being distinguished as the smallest nation in the Americas these islands are also regarded as “The Mother Colony of the West Indies” by virtue of being among the very first of Caribbean Islands to be settled by Europeans

San Julian

Mar 31, 1520

It was givin its name by Magellan. When they met the native people, they described them as giant, adn called them Patagonians, meaning "big feet", since they wore guanaco hide shoes or boots stuffed with straw. He left the por ton August 21st, 1520.

last day at sea

Nov 20, 1520

We have almost reached our destitnation. A lot of the men on the ship died. I am extremly excited to eat regular food. Instead of ones that are full of worms, smell of rat urine, and have maggots in them.