This might be a dumb question but i’ve always wondered since they had never encountered people who spoke a completely new language they’d never heard, how did they communicate?
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This doesn’t answer your question, but I find it fascinating!
When Magellan’s crew was circumnavigating the globe, his personal *slave* was very likely the first individual to do so, long before the rest of the crew.
When they arrived in the Philippines, his slave could understand and communicate with the natives. He spoke a different, but closely related language from his childhood. So it’s speculated that he was taken from somewhere in Southeast Asia as a child and sold into slavery. So he got back to his original starting point before anyone else on the voyage did.
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