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Title: The journal of American history
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Americana Antiques
Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Associated Publishers of American Records
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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pedition which their Catholic Majesties sent, by divine per-mission from Spain to the Indies under the command of Christopher Colum-bus, admiral of the ocean, left Cadiz on the 25th day of September, in theyear 1493, with wind and weather favorable for the voyage. The windlasted two days, during which time we managed to make nearly fiftyleagues. The weather then changing, we made little or no progress forthe next two days; it pleased God, however, after this, to restore us fineweather, so that in two days more we reached the island of Great Canary.Here we put into harbor, which we were obliged to do to repair one of theships that made a great deal of water. We remained all that day, and onthe following set sail again, but were several times becalmed, so that fouror five days more passed before we reached the island of Gomera. We hadto remain at Gomera one day to lay in our store of meat, wood, and as muchwater as we could stow, preparatory for the long voyage that we expected \t UV, I
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A I atutarript nf pjgmrian xm 0I0lum^mB, #lftp to make without seeing land.3 Thus it happened that through the delay atthese two ports, and being calmed the day after leaving Gomera, we spentnineteen or twenty days before we arrived at the island of Ferro.4 Afterthis we had, by the goodness of God, a return to fine weather, more con-tinuous than any fleet ever enjoyed during so long a voyage; so that leavingFerro on the thirteenth day of October, within twenty days we came insight of land, but we should have seen it in fourteen or fifteen days if theship Capitana5 had been as good a sailer as the other vessels,6 for manytimes the others had to shorten sail because they were leaving us muchbehind. During all this time we had great fortune, for throughout thevoyage we encountered no storm, with the exception of one on St. Simonseve, which for four hours put us in considerable danger.7 On the first Sunday after All Saints day, namely, the 3rd of Novem-ber, about dawn, a pilot of the ship

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