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 Uhhmmm... we Filipinos hate to hear that Philippines was discovered by MAGELLAN! It's not true. Because when Magellan came here in our country, we already have a culture, religion and beliefs, and Magellan only influenced us. Like: spreading Catholicism/Christianity, using spoon and fork, wearing extravagant clothes and the system of politics.. Could you please edit it... and by the way.... Yeah! Magellan's prior is to reach Moluccas an island of spices near the Philippines and Indonesia..  
 Im Amiel De Jesus... I edited this... June 20,07 6:00pm 

  

  

  
 Malayan Indonesia are not by nature a seagoing people. They are mostly agrarian and land lovers. The seagoing people of Indonesia are mostly the bugis. To that matter, I concluded that Enrique are brought by Magellan mostly as an intepreter to Malayan language which are commonly use by native people in the mollucas and spice islands of Indonesia to communicate to the non native Indonesian or foreigners.  

  

 Juan Sebastian Elcano was a Spaniard. Ms Mulcahy. His nationality was Spaniard but he was born in a region called Basque Country, and because of that he was Basque also. 

  
 Interesting, see http://www.1421.tv   

 To the anon whom I keep reverting: 

 Wikipedia policy is to make headers lower case except for the first word and any names and places.  Also, you keep making the References header one level too low.  '  

 == Magellan's intention was not to circumnavigate the world == 
 Magellan´s intention was not to circumnavigate the globe but to find the western rute to Molucas beyond America. Elcano decided to get back to Spain navigating on to the West 

 == pic moved == 

 

 moving pic. article looks better without, and is it neccesary? also, might be copyright violation? 

 

  
 

  
  Here is an image that might serve as a substitute for the Sanlucar map, if the copyright is still an issue for the Featured articles candidacy.   

 == Seals == 

 I removed ""A 'seawolf', with the head of a calf — the seal.""- northern Europe is stuffed with seals, so Magellan's sailors were certainly not the first Europeans to see them.   Could it be a manatee?    

 == Enrique passage moved here == 
 The following passage did not make any sense in the context of the article, so I moved it here.  

 Magellan's Malay interpreter, who was baptized Enrique in Malacca 1511, returned from enslavement by Sumatran slavers to his home islands (some of