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Who was the first person to circumnavigate the world?

Black Henry.

A name that almost no one knows. Enrique de Malaca was a slave and translator of Ferdinand Magellan.

Magellan himself never completed his round-the-world trip. In 1521, he was killed in the Philippines, when he was only halfway to his goal.

Magellan first visited East Asia in 1511, sailing there from Portugal across the Indian Ocean. It was there that he found Black Henry. Magellan bought it in Malaysia at the slave market, and then took it with him to Lisbon, returning back the same way.

On all subsequent travels, Henry invariably accompanied his master - including an attempt to circumnavigate the world, on which Magellan set off in 1519. This time, the caravels went in the opposite direction - across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans - so that when the expedition reached East Asia in 1521, Henry became the first person in history to completely circumnavigate the globe.

No one knows where Black Henry comes from - he was probably captured and sold into slavery as a child by pirates from Sumatra - but when he arrived in the Philippines, he was surprised to find that the locals speak his native language.

After the death of the commander, the expedition continued its journey, successfully completing a round-the-world trip under the command of Magellan's deputy, Juan Sebastian Elcano, a Basque by birth.

True, Black Henry was no longer on the ship. Elcano refused to fulfill his patron's last will promise to free Henry from slavery, so Henry decided to flee and was never seen again.

Thus, Juan Sebastian Elcano became the first man in history to circumnavigate the globe in one voyage.

He returned to Seville in September 1522. Four years earlier, five caravels set off to sea, but only one Victoria was able to get home. The ship was bursting with spices, but of the 264 people who originally went on a round-the-world trip with Ferdinand Magellan, only eighteen survived: scurvy, malnutrition and skirmishes with the natives dealt with the rest.

The Spanish king granted Elcano a coat of arms with the image of the globe and the motto: "You were the first to sail around me."

In modern times, Black Henry is considered a national hero by several southeastern nations.

Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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