Comments on: Who Circumnavigated The Earth First? http://goodnewsfromindonesia.org/2010/02/05/who-circumnavigated-the-earth-first/ Beyond Headlines Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:05:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Come On http://goodnewsfromindonesia.org/2010/02/05/who-circumnavigated-the-earth-first/comment-page-1/#comment-2371 Come On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:13:59 +0000 http://goodnewsfromindonesia.org/?p=2893#comment-2371 btw, this is an Indonesian blog, not a Malay blog. so make sure u use the correct term in here. thank you. btw, this is an Indonesian blog, not a Malay blog. so make sure u use the correct term in here. thank you.

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]]> By: Vicente Calibo de Jesus http://goodnewsfromindonesia.org/2010/02/05/who-circumnavigated-the-earth-first/comment-page-1/#comment-2114 Vicente Calibo de Jesus Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:14:15 +0000 http://goodnewsfromindonesia.org/?p=2893#comment-2114 Enrique, 1st circumnavigator? El negro? There is absolutely no written record or oral tradition that refers to Henrich/Henrique/Enrique after May 1, 1521--the day of the massacre in Cebu. Official records of the Casa de Contratacion de las Indias show he had died on that day. But the veracity of this entry is questionable as there is no eyewitness account to support it. Did he die on that day? Did he survive the massacre? No one knows. If he did survive, was he able to hop on a boat and sail anywhere on earth, perhaps back to his home either in Malacca or Sumatra? Or, did he go back to Spain? Did he go back to the home of his master, Magellan? There are endless questions, and there is only one answer: We do not know! "El negro"? This appelation was plucked out of thin air by Ian Cameron, who is not exactly a scholarly historian. There is no scholar or navigation historian who says Enrique was black. He was, in the eyewitness testimony of Magellan himself, a mulato. Now, is a mulato black or brown? The "El Negro" appelation, aside from being a product of fantasy, is racist at the least it is pejorative. I hope people, especially Malays themselves, will stop using this racist term. Vicente Calibo de Jesus ginesdemafra@gmail.com Enrique, 1st circumnavigator? El negro?

There is absolutely no written record or oral tradition that refers to Henrich/Henrique/Enrique after May 1, 1521–the day of the massacre in Cebu. Official records of the Casa de Contratacion de las Indias show he had died on that day. But the veracity of this entry is questionable as there is no eyewitness account to support it.

Did he die on that day? Did he survive the massacre? No one knows.

If he did survive, was he able to hop on a boat and sail anywhere on earth, perhaps back to his home either in Malacca or Sumatra? Or, did he go back to Spain? Did he go back to the home of his master, Magellan?

There are endless questions, and there is only one answer: We do not know!

“El negro”? This appelation was plucked out of thin air by Ian Cameron, who is not exactly a scholarly historian. There is no scholar or navigation historian who says Enrique was black. He was, in the eyewitness testimony of Magellan himself, a mulato. Now, is a mulato black or brown? The “El Negro” appelation, aside from being a product of fantasy, is racist at the least it is pejorative. I hope people, especially Malays themselves, will stop using this racist term.

Vicente Calibo de Jesus
ginesdemafra@gmail.com

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