Report on Juan Sebastian Elcano

Juan Sebastian Elcano was born in Guetaria, Spain in 1476. He was a

navigator. Trying to find an excuse from the King (Charles the fifth, Holy

Roman Emperor), he signs on as a lower class general to Ferdinand

Magellan's expedition to sail around the world. He and five other ships

sailed to find another faster way from Spain's western side. On the way

there the commander of the expedition died in the Philippines in April 1521,

due to that Juan Sebastian Elcano to over of the expedition and started to

sail.

During that time he was half way done and almost all of the food was

gone, they lowered the amount that everyone would get and because of that

people started to die out of starvation but the higher class people got more t

hen everyone else to make sure the will stay health and alive to keep the

voyage alive. Out of about 265 some odd people only 235 was alive that

time. Since more people started dieing everyone would get more food

,because there was a lot less people alive.

Out of the five ships only one was still sailing and it was the Victoria the

ship that Juans was on. There was no more food left and no one knew what

to do,so they started to eat material mostly leather and that is what they

survived on through

the voyage. They ate the leather off of the sails and because

of that people started to die and it quickly went from 235 to 150 and from

100 to 50 until There