From: kfl@KeithLynch.net   
      
   Gary McGath  wrote:   
   > Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:   
   >> Magellan was not the first to circumnavigate the globe, nor was   
   >> Sebastian Elcano.  That was Enrique of Malacca.   
      
   > The Wikipedia article says this is open to dispute, and the   
   > explanation of how he might have been is confusing.   
      
   It's not clear where Enrique was originally from, but it's undisputed   
   that he discovered he could speak the local language in the   
   Philippines.  So he had almost certainly circled the Earth.  And done   
   so before the survivors of the expedition made it back to Europe.   
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