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Enrique is interesting b/c nobody knows exactly where he was from. Magallen bought him as a slave in Malacca and he’s assumed to be Filipino because he could converse with the locals when they arrived. But... https://twitter.com/stevenroodph/status/1303213597313634305
But, IIRC, he was also able to communicate somewhat with the locals at Ladrones Island in the Marianas. It got better as they reached the Philippine archipellego, but no one knows if he was fluent per se.
He might have spoken some Austronesian pidgin or trade language common in maratime SE Asia half a millenia ago, now lost to time. We don’t know and it’s not clear that he knew where he was from either.
That he was from SE Asia, so first to circumnavigate, is beyond dispute IMO
That he was from SE Asia, so first to circumnavigate, is beyond dispute IMO
Laurence Belgreen’s Over the Edge of the World is a supurb read for anyone interested in reading about Magellan’s voyage. It came very close to nobody surviving to tell the tale. https://www.amazon.com/Over-Edge-World-Terrifying-Circumnavigation/dp/006093638X
