A native of Malacca who was called Enrique by the Spaniards, was the first person to go around the world 
The afternoon slowly fell leaving little by little a day of fierce temperature. On a small island in the remote Moluccas, three Portuguese naos detached from the Great Fleet of the Indies needed to wash. The reservoirs were dry and the seamen desperate, wetting the handkerchiefs soaking them on the deck with the dew of dawn. The situation was hopeless. During the Portuguese colonization process of Sumatra and Indonesia, Magellan, who was separated from the main Albuquerque fleet, had to stop on a remote and unknown island. The astonished aborigines approached at a bad time to browse. Put safely, the surprised natives did not believe their new status as slaves. They would quickly fill the cisterns to overflow and then the cellars would be their new home for the remains. Those who put up resistance were dispatched expeditiously where they never return. Colonization stuff. Among those captured, an aristocratic lad, probably a local Filipino or Malay prince of no more than fifteen years, would be adopted by the Portuguese captain and ipso facto Christianized. The clever young man would quickly acquire the ins and outs of the language and would be the official interpreter for the remains. But it doesn't end there. Magellan left in 1519 with the order of the Spanish Crown in search of a passage to cross the New World and reach the Spice Islands, among them the Moluccas, by the western route; his slave Enrique went with him. According to Pigafetta, the chronicler of the Magellan fleet, when approaching Cebu, in the Philippines, during the return of the expedition, Enrique was able to communicate with the locals in a very faithful Malay dialect that he had as his mother tongue quite fluently. The interpreter, surprised, was unaware that after twelve years he had returned to his point of origin. With the exception of Magellan himself, who had previously visited the East Indies, the Spanish crew - including Elcano - still had thousands of kilometers ahead of them to conclude the round the world trip that would give them undying fame in a feat of epic resonances for their extreme hardness and the high mortality suffered. " Taken from El Confidencial, newsletter Referred by Prof. Andrés Moyanohttp: //www.elconfidencial.com/alma-corazon-vida/2015-07-25/el-primer-hombre-en-dar-la-vuelta-al-mundo-fue-un- slave_941870 /