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La Condamine canoed up the coast, and then up here - the Esmeraldas River - so he could get inland. Round every bend in this river there would've been something new.

He'd be bursting to understand it. It wasn't long before his curiosity led him to the first significant discovery of the expedition.

And it's the same practice now? It's the same practice now for thousands of years. I love it. La Condamine came through here and discovered something that revolutionised Europe in many ways. He'd discovered rubber, and he was now on his way to Quito to join the rest of his expedition.

He would have recognised things like bananas, thank heaven, and they were the things that kept him alive. La Condamine answered, he couldn't possibly meet a man of such stature and importance dressed in rags. Despite his earlier problems in the rainforest, he volunteered to go across to Lima to raise some funds. So the Peruvians and merchants made a good trade, sending any old bark to unsuspecting Europeans.

I think that's fantastic that, in just three days, he'd discovered this fantastically important thing. What else was there? Well, the foot. Now, the foot was based on somebody's foot. Probably a king's foot. And even though they'd learnt the hard way, they'd finally become masters of the hostile environment. Moves are executed in turns, with each ship having a certain amount of moves per turn. If you're playing against human opponents, you have to leave the Amiga until they complete their turns.

Initially, finding land with native settlements is paramount. Expeditions can then be formed and the natives either conquered or negotiated with. As soon as that's done, it becomes a settlement upon which you can build or cultivate useful utilities and crops such as sugar and tobacco plantations, silver and gold mines, churches and ports. Doing this takes up a lot of time though. And when you've got sizeable, profitable settlements up and running, you'll attract the attention of pirates, not to mention your opponents.

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And it turned one man, Ferdinand Magellan, into one of the most celebrated explorers in the history of the world. But behind the legend of one of the greatest-ever Voyages Of Discovery lies another story Paul Rose sets sail on a replica of the Victoria and shows how the real hero was not, in fact, Magellan, but a member of his crew.

Instead, his real mission was to discover the vast southern continent that, it was believed, "balanced the Earth". After battling the elements, Cook found Tahiti.