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Updated: May 2, 2025
"How do you get into the thing, I wonder?" asked the fellow from Harlem, eyeing his suspended bed. "Borrow the navigator's step-ladder," suggested the coxs'n of the gig. "He keeps it in the chart room." The greatest difficulty was the disposal of our clothes. There were no wardrobes nor closets nor convenient hooks, and it was strictly against the rule to leave anything lying around decks.
He didn't like such strange qualities arbitrarily forcing their way into his being he had the navigator's necessity for a clear understanding of the combined elements within and without which resulted in a harmonious, or at least predictable, movement. He distrusted all fogs.
The language of the people was said to be very similar to that or the Navigator's islands, from which, their ancestors are supposed to have emigrated. And thus much being said, all has been related that I then knew of the islands in question. Enough, however, that they existed at all; and that our path thereto lay over a pleasant sea, and before a reliable Trade-wind.
This precious manuscript was long in the possession of Columbus's friend Bartolome de las Casas, who borrowed it because he was writing a history of Columbus and wished to get all the information, possible in the navigator's own words. Las Casas was a monk who spent his life in befriending the Indians. When quite old, he ceased journeying to the New World and stayed at home writing history.
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