Crossing the line of demarcation   They took a passage to the west   Dead reckoning they doubled back   Into the north they anchored for bad weather   San martin and magellan almost lost sight of the flagship      The santiago and victoria led   No sign of land altered the course   Why not return for winter?    No violation of direct royal orders   The men, the officers, all cried "return"   No captains that had discipline-   Rode the high seas in storms and mutiny (with the enemy)   Desperately they sought a haven in an age of discovery...      Extra precautions, setting anchor as they did   Terrified, the crews made pledges back to spain for pilgrimage   Lighting fires at night to signal shipmates-at last deliverance   From the fury of this godforsaken place they named the "bay   Of travail"-      Ride the high seas in storms and mutiny (with the enemy)   Desperately they sought a haven in an age of discovery...      Genius or madman? so elusive were the straits   Battered were the ships and men   A stop for repairs in st. julian   The crew wanted to know the route they'd begun   Despite stirring exhortations for loyalty from magellan      Onboard concepcion there was mutiny in demand   And they moved to take the fleet at night   With the knowledge there was blood on their hands   But the tables turned-the remaining crew blocked the exit   To the sea   A sudden advantage for the general using ruthless strategy...      Target chosen shrewdly of three vessels controlled by the   Mutineers   High numbers of neutral foreigners on victoria would not   Rise up against him.      Pulling hard against an ebb   Rebellion muted the message read:   "no mistreatment, I'll do what's right"   No heavy hand will rule the night      On the mainmast high, we'll raise his flag   Court martial pending on trinidad   Condemned to death were forty more   Mendoza "quartered" upon the shore      Poetic justice coming swift and severe   But how could he lose so many men?    Commute the sentence for the sin   Confined to quarters and distasteful labor   Convicted conspirators fallen in his disfavor      Philosophers and scholars began to challenge   The true dimensions of the earth (new evidence uncovered)   Finding the straits magellan died triumphant   But no vindication came in time   No statesman, no royalty-      Rode the high seas in storms and mutiny (with the enemy)   Desperately they sailed the globe in a voyage of treachery      Circumnavigation returning victoria with twenty-one   Determined by storms and mutiny   He conquered the sea   Though honor followed, a witness he would not be......