“Also if there be any here willing to return home let me understand of them … but let them take heed that they go homeward, for if I find them in my way I will surely sink them.”
About This Quote
Speech to his crew off of Puerto San Julian, Argentina, prior to entering the Strait of Magellan (May 1578)
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