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00:00Did you know the most famous voyage in history was probably finished by a man nobody remembers?
00:05In 1519, Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Spain with five ships and a bold plan to circle the
00:11entire globe. He had a slave with him named Enrique. Captured years earlier in Southeast Asia,
00:17Enrique had already been taken westward across the ocean to Europe. Now he was sailing west again,
00:22back toward his homeland. Magellan never made it. In April 1521, he picked a fight he didn't need
00:28to in the Philippines, siding with one local tribe against another. The battle was small. The result
00:34was not. Magellan was cut down on the beach, the voyage unfinished. But Enrique kept going. When
00:40the expedition finally reached Southeast Asia, Enrique had now traveled in one continuous direction
00:45all the way around the world. A complete circle. The first human being to circumnavigate the globe
00:51was not the captain. It was the man who served him. History gave Magellan the glory. Enrique earned it.
00:58the student well. The man who served him. The man who served him. The man who served him. the man
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00:59the state of this island, which was not the man who served him to. The man who served him. He
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