h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

would you perhaps be using a nautical version of the word head rather than a part of anatomy?

Is this ritual something that needs 15 people?

We are getting the hang of it now +1 DGI (last one as it is obvious now) a long way to go yet though.

A Bell tolls, and with a cape and girdle were a part of 15, that may point to a calf on the head, and the others too.
The word toll could have a double meaning. A toll (charge) is sometimes collected.

Is this ritual something that needs 15 people - No


But ritual/routine was carried out involving a lot more people.

I am guessing someone died while rounding the cape.

I may be wrong but didn't Magellan (who made the first circumnavigation reported in Europe) actually die during the voyage?

Or was it James Cook? Or even James' cook? Long John Silver was ship's cook on the Treasure Island trip. People assumed he had a wooden leg but in fact it was one of those giant pepper grinders so popularised in fashionable restaurants in the 1970's.

The word toll could have a double meaning. A toll (charge) is sometimes collected.
Yes Shagbark well spotted +1 DGI

Shagbark

Post 26 death was an issue here

No pebble not Magellan if he was buried at sea he did not make it.

If I remember correctly, Captain cook was sailing E to West, He went through the Beagle channel in Tierra del Fuego, sailed on to Hawaii and named them the Sandwich Islands. Then on to the Phillipines and I don't remember but somewhere there he fell sick and never reached the Cape of Good Hope.

15 important points on a specific voyage that include a girdle (going around) and a cape (we have that too). Who is this Bell who Tolls the travellers?

I have a feeling anything to do with telephones *could* be a klaxon?

Shagbark and Robyn its not a voyage, just, maybe only a part of one Magellan

Ignor Magellan

Ignor Magellan, half Danish, half Portuguese, became the first man to circumnavigate the globe in reverse when his rudder jammed as he left harbour.

Getting near the for dodgey jokes there pebble

I will try to atone by springing a few klaxons for the others.

A Bell could be a telephonic reference
Tolls could be call charges
The fifteen cloaking (covering) and the girdle (going around the Earth)

All leads? to communication satellites.

Is it the story of global communication? You know, from travelling, through laying the first phone lines to satellites...?

Good thought Pebble

No penalty but wrong not even close