 Sanchez of Segovia, and made the same inquiry. By the time the latter had ascended the round-house, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams; as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising...  The London Magazine - Pàgina 2941828Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1867 - 744 pàgines
...October, 1492, during his first voyage across the Atlantic, saw a few transient gleams of light ahead, he "considered them as certain signs of land, and, moreover that the land was inhabited." Though few of his companions attached any importance to them, the sequel proved the correctness of... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1828 - 802 pàgines
...passing gleams, as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves, or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and...certain signs of land, and, moreover, that the land war. inhabited. " They continued their course until two in the morning, when a gun from the Pinta gave... | |
 | 1828 - 484 pàgines
...passing gleams ; as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves ; or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and...uncertain were these gleams, that few attached any important to them ; Columbus, however, considered them as certain signs of land, and, moreover, that... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrup - 1888 - 790 pàgines
...180 181 r!»ams, as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking wilh the waves, or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and...house. So transient and uncertain were these gleams, lhat few attached any importance to them ; Columbus, however, considered them as certain signs of land,... | |
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