From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article <10h4lja$3mndo$1@dont-email.me>,   
   Gary McGath   wrote:   
   >On 12/7/25 9:06 AM, 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. Magellan, of course, died before   
   >completing the trip. It seems to me that the first to circumnavigate   
   >Earth would be an n-way tie among the survivors of the expedition.   
      
   [Hal Heydt]   
   As I recall reading, if one claims the Magellan expedition as the   
   first circumnavigation, the honors as "leader" for the whole trip   
   go to his First Mate.   
      
   On the onther hand, I don't know if anyone disputes Joshua Slocum   
   as being first to do a solo circumnavigation.   
      
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