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Columbus, after many delays, fits out another squadron, and sails on his third voyage, 30th May, 1498 Touches at Gomara Retakes a prize to a French privateer Off the Cape de Verdes Sends three of his ships to Hispaniola, and steers south-west with the remainder Long becalmed Steers west and sights Trinidad Sees mainland of South America Natives come off Alarmed by music A bore threatens to destroy the ships Enters the Serpent's Mouth Sails up the Gulf of Paria Mistakes the promontory for an island Anchors at the mouth of the river Natives come off Pearls seen among them Large quantities procured Passes through the Dragon's Mouth Natives seen fishing for pearls Three pounds weight obtained His eyesight failing, steers for Hispaniola Makes the land fifty leagues more to the west than he had expected Reaches Isabella Disastrous state of the settlement Bobadilla sent out to supersede Columbus Summoned to Isabella Columbus and his brothers sent in chains to Spain Arrival Reaction in his favour Honourably received at Court Ovando sent out to supersede Bobadilla The belief of Columbus that a passage into the Indian Ocean was to be found Obtains authority to fit out another fleet.
Now all the other companies had been forced to make room for "The Black Terror" on account of the emergency created by the death of Stella Lamar, and there were any number of sets put up hastily for the retakes of the scenes in which Stella had appeared. The effect of the whole upon a strange beholder was weird.
I became one of the many hands-on they had for the job: I would assist in various ways like holding the flash, helping with the setting up of shots, catching and re-catching the frogs as they scampered off during the numerous retakes. One lazy afternoon Tharaq suggested a haircut for me. My hair was by then really long. In fact I had not put a scissor to it since the beginning of my sabbatical.
It was written, every word of it, on English ground, in the midst of the old familiar scenes and household names, that even in our nursery songs revive the dear ancestral memories; those "royal pursuivants" with which our mother-land still follows and retakes her own. It was written in the land of our old kings and queens, and in the land of our own PHILOSOPHERS and POETS also.
Then the talk turned to moving picture work, though Ruth could not help wondering, even in the midst of it, why Miss Brown had not been more certain of where she had learned to ride. "It isn't something one would forget," mused Ruth. Rehearsals, the filming of scenes, retakes and the studying of their parts kept busy not only the moving picture girls, but all the members of Mr. Pertell's company.
This he could do either in rehearsal or in retakes after the scene had actually been photographed. It was not proof, I knew. Practically all of them were familiar with the action of the scene, could guess how Werner would handle it.
Sometimes it pushes them against the rocks where they break in pieces, sometimes it rolls them on the sand, or dashes them on the mire, then instantly it retakes them into the depths of its own bosom, where they are absorbed with the same rapidity that they were first ejected.
But as no one is seriously injured, the "fallen brave" retakes his position in the ranks and the column proceeds as though nothing had happened. We had all these experiences in one form or another in our raid, and on reaching camp we found that several men had lost their caps by the way.
She retakes her rights; effaces man's work; covers his most sumptuous monuments with dust and moss; destroys them in time, leaving him only the regret that he has lost by his own fault the conquests of his ancestors. These periods during which man loses his domain, ages of barbarism when everything perishes, are always prepared by wars and arrive with famine and depopulation.
The waste itself is beyond belief sometimes four and five cameras on a scene, retakes upon the slightest provocation, even sets rebuilt because some minor detail fails to suit the artistic eye of the director. Werner, supposed to watch all the companies, doesn't half know his business.
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