Antonio Pigafetta, scholar
and something of the two staff members to keep a record(and later publisher of very first Voyage Around the World), blogged that slave had been a primary reason Magellan surely could persuade the King of Spain to finance the expedition.
Although, as noted, Enrique may have beat him to the punch, and there were 17 other crew members who also completed the journey,
including the Italian scholar Antonio Pigafetta, who technically by longitude at least would
have finished the circumnavigation before they reached Spain.
Antonio Pigafetta, scholar
and one of the two crew members to keep a journal(and later publisher of First Voyage Around the World), wrote that the slave was one of the reasons Magellan was able to convince the King of Spain to finance the expedition.