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Roldan and Adan were made welcome at once. "My name is Jose Maria Perez," said the host, coming forward. "This is my wife, Dona Theresa, and these are my sons, Emilio, Jorge, Benito, and Carlos. What shall we call you, my sons?" "My name is Roldan Castanada of the Rancho Los Palos Verdes, and this is my friend Adan Pardo of the Rancho Buena Vista." "Ay! we have distinguished visitors.
He stopped and looked out over the hillside where the heat quivered in rainbows from the rocks, and the naked palo verdes, stripped of their bark, bleached like skeletons beside their jagged stumps. "Say, Rufe," he began, abruptly, "I'm goin' crazy." He shook his head slowly and sighed.
It was the house of a grandee, but there was none like it in the neighbourhood of the Rancho de los Palos Verdes. He waited with what patience he could muster until his open door should attract attention, listening to the murmur of the fountain, inhaling the fragrance of orange and magnolia, wondering if Adan, too, were safe, angrily resenting his weakness.
Oh, for more wind! They were hardly up into the trades yet, and at that season, even the trades were uncertain. But it was certain that unless enough favorable wind did come, and come soon, they would hardly reach the Cape Verdes in time. Already crew, negroes and all, were down to one pint of water to the man every twenty-four hours.
In the following year the Portuguese monarch applied for a revision of the raya, as this would keep him out of all discovered in the New World altogether; and the line of demarcation was then shifted 270 leagues westward, or altogether 1110 miles west of the Cape Verdes.
Antonio, the northwesternmost of the Cape Verdes, close aboard. The landfall was wonderfully true, considering that no observations for longitude had been made. The wind, northeast, as the sloop drew by the island, was very squally, but I reefed her sails snug, and steered broad from the highland of blustering St. Antonio.
On the 27th of November the Essex, after an uneventful voyage, anchored at Porto Praya, in the Cape Verdes, where she remained five days. Receiving no news of Bainbridge, Porter sailed again for Fernando Noronha.
Then the mate took an observation by the sun, cast a reckoning, and informed Ralph that as far as his knowledge of geography would serve, they were some two hundred miles from the Cape Verdes. "We have a fair wind, Ralph, so square away west by nor'west, and leave this bloody slaver to her fate. I'm sorry for those niggers, for bad as they treated us, we got 'em in the fix they're in.
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.
If we'd kept on as we were going we'd have struck the Cape de Verdes, and if that had happened at night we'd probably have left our bones on a drowning volcano. We ought to have been ten or twelve degrees farther north to make a safe passage over the Sahara. What's the course now? Are you still for running down the Himalaya mountains?" "I'll decide later what to do," said Cosmo Versal.
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