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Magellan
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Crossing the line of demarcation
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They took a passage to the west
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Dead reckoning they doubled back
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Into the north they anchored for bad weather
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San Martin and Magellan almost lost sight of the flagship
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The Santiago and Victoria led
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No sign of land altered the course
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Why not return for winter?
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No violation of direct royal orders
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The men, the officers, all cried "return"
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No captains that had discipline-
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rode the high seas in storms and mutiny (with the enemy)
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Desperately they sought a haven in an age of discovery...
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Extra precautions, setting anchor as they did
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Terrified, the crews made pledges back to Spain for pilgrimage
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Lighting fires at night to signal shipmates-at last deliverance
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from the fury of this godforsaken place they named the "bay
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of travail"-
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Ride the high seas in storms and mutiny (with the enemy)
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Desperately they sought a haven in an age of discovery...
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Genius or madman? So elusive were the straits
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Battered were the ships and men
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A stop for repairs in St. Julian
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The crew wanted to know the route they'd begun
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despite stirring exhortations for loyalty from Magellan
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Onboard Concepcion there was mutiny in demand
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And they moved to take the fleet at night
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with the knowledge there was blood on their hands
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But the tables turned-the remaining crew blocked the exit
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to the sea
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A sudden advantage for the general using ruthless strategy...
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Target chosen shrewdly of three vessels controlled by the
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mutineers
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High numbers of neutral foreigners on Victoria would not
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rise up against him.
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Pulling hard against an ebb
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Rebellion muted the message read:
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"No mistreatment, I'll do what's right"
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No heavy hand will rule the night
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On the mainmast high, we'll raise his flag
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court martial pending on Trinidad
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Condemned to death were forty more
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Mendoza "quartered" upon the shore
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Poetic justice coming swift and severe
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But how could he lose so many men?
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Commute the sentence for the sin
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Confined to quarters and distasteful labor
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Convicted conspirators fallen in his disfavor
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Philosophers and scholars began to challenge
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The true dimensions of the earth (new evidence uncovered)
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Finding the straits Magellan died triumphant
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but no vindication came in time
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No statesman, no royalty-
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Rode the high seas in storms and mutiny (with the enemy)
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Desperately they sailed the globe in a voyage of treachery
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Circumnavigation returning Victoria with twenty-one
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Determined by storms and mutiny
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he conquered the sea
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Though honor followed, a witness he would not be......
Mutiny
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