 Sanchez of Segovia and made the same inquiry. By the time the latter had ascended the roundhouse 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 and...  Bentley's Miscellany - Pagina 3841867Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | François Quesnel - 1869 - 360 pagine
...affirmative. They saw it once or twice afterwards: but so transient12 and uncertain were these gleams13 that few attached any importance to them. Columbus, however, considered them as certain signs of land, and moreover14 that the land was inhabited. They continued their course till two in... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 346 pagine
...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 and sinking with the...them; Columbus, however, considered them as certain signs of land, and, moreover, that the land was inhabited." They continued their course until two in... | |
 | F. J - 1870 - 346 pagine
...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 and sinking with the...them; Columbus, however, considered them as certain signs of land, and, moreover, that the land was inhabited." They continued their course until two in... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 340 pagine
...disappeared. 3. They saw it once or twice afterward, in sudden and passing gleams, as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the...walked from house to house. So transient and uncertain Avere these gleams, that few attached any importance to them. Columbus, however, considered them as... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1871 - 346 pagine
...disappeared. 3. They saw it once or twice afterward, in sudden and passing gleams, as if it were a torch in the bark - of a fisherman, rising and sinking with...them. Columbus, however, considered them as certain signs of land, and, moreover, that the land Was inhabited. 4. They continued their course until two... | |
 | 1872 - 692 pagine
...disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in passing gleams, as if it were a torch in the barque of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves; or in the hands of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and... | |
 | Henry Major - 1873 - 168 pagine
...They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams ; as it were a torch in the barque of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves...them ; Columbus, however, considered them as certain signs of land, and, moreover, that the land was inhabited. They continued their course until two in... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1873 - 798 pagine
...disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams ; as it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves : or in (he hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house 10 house. So transient... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1874 - 346 pagine
...disappeared. 3. They saw it once or twice afterward, in sudden and passing gleams, as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the...them. Columbus, however, considered them as certain signs of land, and, moreover, that the land was inhabited. 4. They continued their course until two... | |
 | Henry Major - 1875 - 268 pagine
...They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams ; as it were a torch in the barque of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves...them ; Columbus, however, considered them as certain signs of land, and, moreover, that the land was inhabited. They continued their course until two in... | |
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