 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1828 - 882 pages
...as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves ; or in the baad of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked...these gleams, that few attached any importance to them ; Coluintnu, however, considered them as certain signs of land, and, moreover, that the land was inhabited.... | |
 | Washington Irving - Biography & Autobiography - 1829 - 346 pages
...as if it were a torch in the bark 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...moreover, that the land was inhabited. / They continued on their course until two in the morning, when a gun from the Pinta, gave the joyful signal of land.... | |
 | 1829 - 762 pages
...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 the hand of some person...shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to bouse. So transient and uncertain were these gleams, that few attached any importance to them ; Columbus,... | |
 | 1830 - 428 pages
...as if it were a torch in the bark 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...however, considered them as certain signs of land, •nd, moreover, that the land was inhabited. ".They continued on their course until two in the morning,... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - America - 1833 - 290 pages
...and again it appeared and disappeared, " 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...borne up and down as he walked from house to house." At two in the morning, the Pinta fired a gun, the joyful signal of land. It was first descried by a... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - United States - 1835 - 358 pages
...afterwards, in sudden and 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...land, "and, moreover, that the land was inhabited. The^r continued their course untiliiwo in the morning^when a gun from the Pintagave the joyful signal... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Readers - 1835 - 328 pages
...afterwards, in sudden and 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...Columbus, however, considered them as certain signs of Tand, and, moreover, that the land was inhabited. They continued their course until two in the morning,... | |
 | Voyages and travels - 1838 - 534 pages
...afterwards, in sudden and 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...as he walked from house to house. So transient and unceitain were these gleams, that few attached any importance to them. Columbus, however, considered... | |
 | John Frost - United States - 1839 - 332 pages
...carried by some fisherman or traveller. This last appearance was considered by him as decisive evidence of land ; and, moreover, that the land was inhabited. They continued their course till two o'clock in the morning, when a gun from the Pinta gave the signal that land was in sight.... | |
 | 1840 - 210 pages
...if it were a toreh in the bark 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 uneertain were those gleams, that few attaehed any importanee to them ; Columbus, however, eonsidered... | |
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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... 
