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Ferdinand Magellan - Part 4: The Cost of Exploration
Beyond the strait, the sea changed character. For months, the ships drifted across a basin of water whose calm was only a prelude to its cruelty. That ocean demanded an arithmetic of endurance: days without sight of land, weeks during which the sun seemed to shrink while the stores grew smaller. Food dwindled faster than anyone had calculated; scurvy moved through the lower decks with anonymous cruelty.
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