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Alonzo de Espinosa, governor of the island of Ferro, accordingly made a report, in which more than one hundred witnesses, several of them persons of the highest respectability, deposed that they had beheld the unknown island about forty leagues to the northwest of Ferro; that they had contemplated it with calmness and certainty, and had seen the sun set behind one of its points.
Second Voyage: Flotilla of seventeen vessels Island of Ferro Dominica Marie-Galante Guadaloupe The Cannibals Montserrat Santa-Maria-la-Rodonda St. Martin and Santa Cruz Archipelago of the Eleven Thousand Virgins The island of St. John Baptist, or Porto Rico Hispaniola The first Colonists massacred Foundation of the town of Isabella Twelve ships laden with treasure sent to Spain Fort St.
Bethencourt lived several years in the archipelago, where he took possession of the two islands of Lancerote and Fuerteventura, and civilised their inhabitants. Upon his death, his heir sold these two islands to the Spaniards. Afterwards Ferdinando Pedraria and his wife landed upon two other of the Canaries, Ferro and Gomera.
Being now three hundred sixty leagues west from Ferro, another of the birds called rabo-de-junco was seen.
The quantity in the text, reduced to avoirdupois weight, amounts to twenty-eight hogsheads, at sixteen hundred weight each. Astl. In Clarke, this person is named Ferrero; perhaps the right name of this person was Fernando Pereira, who subdued Gomera and Ferro. A species of moss, or lichen rather, that grows on the rocks, and is used by dyers. Clarke.
The opportunity was favourable for a revision of the Constitution. "I see," he wrote "in our Federal connection only a weakness of Prussia which sooner or later must be cured, ferro et igni." Probably Schleinitz's answer was not of such a kind as to tempt him to write again.
On the morning of Thursday the sixth of September 1492, the admiral took his departure from Gomera, and commenced his great undertaking by standing directly westwards, but made very slow progress at first on account of calms. On Sunday the ninth of September, about day-break, they were nine leagues west of the island of Ferro.
The Norman cavalier His ideas of conquest What was known of the Canary Islands Cadiz The Canary Archipelago Graciosa Lancerota Fortaventura Jean de Béthencourt returns to Spain Revolt of Berneval His interview with King Henry III. Gadifer visits the Canary Archipelago Canary Island or "Gran Canaria" Ferro Island Palma Island. Jean de Béthencourt was born about the year 1339, at Eu in Normandy.
All this day and night by reason of the winde we could not double the point of the Isle of Ferro, except we would haue gone to the Westward of it, which had bene much out of our course: therefore we kept about, and ranne backe fiue houres Eastnortheast to the ende we might double it vpon the next boord, the winde continuing Southeast, which hath not bene often seene vpon that coast by any traueilers: for the winde continueth there for the most part Northeast, and East Northeast: so vpon the other boord by the next morning we were in a maner with the Island, and had roome ynough to double the same.
Sparke was lost in wonder over the famous Arbol Santo tree of Ferro, 'by the dropping whereof the inhabitants and cattle are satisfied with water, for other water they have none on the island. This is not quite the traveller's tale it appears to be. There are three springs on the island of Teneriffe.
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