A Secret Mission to Cross the Pacific
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Why Did the Rest of the Fleet Think That They Had Abandoned Them?
Lope martin, even though he is on paper a spanish pilot, everybody knew that he was a portuguese. They also knew that a single load of some of these precious spices would be enough to make everybody aboard the vessel immensely rich. Plus, there actually had been a plot against lagaspi, led by some of the non spaniards and the crew,. It's quite possible that martin had been involved. But as rasendez points out, martin never actually deviated from the official plan go to the philippines and back. He tried to rejoin everybody, and he ultimately returned to the americas. The original mission was he didn't just
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