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Updated: May 5, 2025
At four hundred leguas from the islands they sight certain volcanoes and ridges of the islands of Ladrones, which run north as far as twenty-four degrees. Among these they generally encounter severe storms and whirl-winds. At thirty-four degrees is the cape of Sestos, at the northern head of Japon, six hundred leguas from the Filipinas.
A strong dry wind blew steadily from the north, building up out of fine dust which was over all the surface of the baked ground little whirl-winds remolinos, as the Mexicans call them which went dancing down the valleys as though they were ghostly things; and occasionally, when one of these struck us, we were covered with a prickly dust that fairly burned our skins.
And numerous leonine roars were sent forth and all the animals in the camp uttered their cries together. And although the sky was cloudless, a bloody shower fell and made the ground miry. And fierce whirl-winds, and earthquakes, and roars of elephants, occurring, depressed the hearts of all the warriors. Incorporeal voices and flashes of meteoric falls were heard and seen in the welkin.
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