Genoese, made his landfall on the island of Guanahani, now identified with Watling Island in the Bahamas.
Landfall Islands, separated by the navigable Cleugh Passage; Interview Island, separated by the very narrow but navigable Interview Passage, off the W.
This was later by thirteen months and a week than the Cabots' landfall at Labrador or Nova Scotia, though a year before Amerigo Vespucci saw the coast of Brazil.
Otway Bay, whose position I had already fixed with respect to stations onLandfall Island.
Behind Landfall Island the coast forms a deep bay, apparently full of islands, and it is said there is in that part a communication with the Strait of Magalhaens.
Weighed and ran across to an anchorage in Landfall Island which I had seen from the heights.
The Landfall Islands appeared to be the top of a ridge of mountains lying (partly below the sea) in the same direction as most of the neighbouring ranges.
The Departure is not the ship's going away from her port any more than the Landfall can be looked upon as the synonym of arrival.
It is hard to say; for in that voyage from which no man returns Landfall and Departure are instantaneous, merging together into one moment of supreme and final attention.
Landfall and Departure mark the rhythmical swing of a seaman's life and of a ship's career.
It was a distinct and complete impression, something that I don't know whether to call a Landfall or a Departure.
But if you have sighted it on the expected bearing, then that Landfall is good.
A careful examination of these accounts justifies the opinion that Gosnold made his landfall off Agamenticus, and first dropped anchor, since leaving Falmouth, at Cape Ann.
And Carlsen rattled on during the meal in high good spirits, rallying Rainey about his poker game with the hunters, joking Lund about his shooting, talking of the landfall they expected the next day.
The Karluk was bowling along northward toward landfall and the crisis between Lund and Carlsen at good speed.
Stretching seawards like a long, crooked finger, this remote peninsula forms the most westerly landfall of Pembrokeshire, and the southernmost horn of that great Welsh gulf known as Cardigan Bay.
A turn of the head reveals the varied line of coast stretching away, league upon league, past the groves of Stackpole to the bluff, perpendicular landfall of St. Govan's Head.
They had lost their way among the islands and had been searching about for Espanola, finally making a landfall there on the coast of Xaragua, the south-western province of the island, where Roldan and his followers were established.
Then the course was altered slightly once again, in order to make a proper landfallon the other side.
Their intention was to leave it a little on their left, and, then making a landfall of a certain railhead and canal, take a short cross-country flight to the big aerodrome behind the British lines.
We should have made a landfall in another five minutes, and then we should have missed her altogether," replied his companion, pausing for an instant in his attack on the coffee and hot rolls.
Cheers went up from the lookout for the landfall of Francis Drake's discovery.
It is due to make landfall within the week, if it has managed to hold its schedule.
Sailing up from the islands will mean tacking against the wind, but the fleet could possibly makelandfall within a month.
Not till landfall at Zanzibar had he dared expose it to the sea air.
If this was our former Captain-General, he is either gone to God or is now again in India (if the vessel haply madelandfall and saved the Hollanders' pepper).
It was already autumn when I madelandfall and the heat was still unbearable.
When the fleet from Bantam makes landfall at Surat, Arangbar will surely have the courage to sign the firman, and then my mission will be finished.
To tell the truth, he also saved my life several months ago, the night we made landfall at Surat and were ambushed on the Tapti River by the Portugals.
But steer it true an' you'll make landfall just as India's ports reopen for the autumn tradin' season.
After taking on the Indian pilot, Hawksworth's plan had been to make landfall immediately, then launch a pinnace for Surat, there to negotiate trade for their goods and safe conduct to the capital at Agra for himself.
Of its latitudes, with the exception of the landfall and termination of the exploration, which are fixed also by other means, and are necessary to the ground work of the story, only a single one is mentioned.
By a statement of intermediate courses and distances, from point to point, between the landfall and the place of leaving the coast, separately, making in the aggregate the whole distance named.
So westward Hudson turns the bow of his ship, to make a first landfall on the coast of Newfoundland, a second at Penobscot Bay, and a third at Cape Cod.
The landfall occurred on the coast of South Carolina.
An elaborate attempt to identify Samana as the landfall was made by the late Capt.
These adventurers made their landfall where they could find no good inlet, and so sailed north, searching, until at last they reached the sounds on the North Carolina coast, and tarried awhile.
A belief like this requires us, necessarily, to reject Varnhagen's view that as early as the previous June (1499) Ojeda had made his landfall just as far to the east.
It will be remembered that the La Cosa map showed no hesitancy in placing the Antilles on the coast of Asia, and put the region of the Cabot landfall on the coast of Cathay.
Las Casas tells us that in some parts, and particularly in describing the landfall and the events immediately succeeding, he did not vary the words of the original.
The incident of the moving light in the night before his first landfall is a striking instance of his daring disregard of all the qualities that help a commander in his dominance over his men.
The track of Columbus from San Salvador to Cuba has been as variously disputed as the landfall; indeed, the divergent views of the landfall necessitate such later variations.
They made a landfall on the 3rd of December, got on shore on one of the smaller islets on the 4th, found no water, and were driven to sea to seek an offing on the 5th by a gale.
The Adventures of Ojeda Ojeda made a landfallat what is known now as Cartagena.
The harbor now called Drake's Bay was not, according to Wagner, the site of Drake's landfall in 1579.
Davidson first thought that Drake's landfall had been in San Francisco Bay, but after more careful study he concluded that Drake's Bay was the anchorage (see pl.
The Trinidad Bay landfall theory will first be investigated, in an attempt to determine whether the Indians mentioned in Fletcher's account are identifiable with the Yurok tribe which, in historic times, occupied this territory.
That he should have made an exact landfall and sailed into the Bay of Isabella, never having been there before, was a certificate of the highest skill in navigation.
His landfall there, although it signified the realisation of one part of his dream, was only the starting-point of his explorations in the New World.
Watling's Island contains about 600 inhabitants scattered over the surface, with a small settlement called Cockburn Town on the west side, nearly opposite the landfall of Columbus.
There is a long note on thelandfall of Gosnold on the Maine coast, in Poor’s Vindication of Gorges, p.
Whether he saw an island or whether he saw the mainland, was a mere matter of what has been called landfall by the seamen.
Had not His Holiness divided all Heathendom between the crowns of Spain and Portugal, to Spain the West and to Portugal the East; and was not this landfall within what the modern world would call the Spanish sphere of influence?
On the third morning we were in bright sunshine, and the sea was going down fast, and again we were heading east, with a half hope of making some landfall in Norway, if anywhere.
We must go as the gale drove us, and make what landfall we might, though where that would be we could not tell, for there was no knowing how far we were from the Norway shore, or whither we had drifted in the fog.
Although Columbus made his first landfall on one of the Bahamas, and Cuba was soon after occupied, no definite knowledge seems to have been obtained of the great mainland so near them.
He gives his reasons for this landfall in his Le premier voyage, p.
Becher (Landfall of Columbus) speaks of the Isle of St. Matthew and Isle Grande in the South Atlantic being kept in charts till the beginning of this century.
The present Samana has been recently selected for thelandfall by Gustavus V.
Landfall of Columbus on his First Voyage to America, London, 1856.
Lieutenant Murdock follows and criticises the various theories afresh, and traces Columbus’ track backward from Cuba, till he makes the landfall to have been at Watling’s Island.
The name which the latter says was borne in his day by the island of the landfall was “Triango;” but the critic fails to find this name on any earlier map than that first made known in the Cartas de Indias in 1877.
Other English translations may be found in Becher’s Landfall of Columbus, p.
Becher (Landfall of Columbus) speaks of the map as “the clumsy production of an illiterate seaman.
From which the account of Columbus’ early life is translated in Becher’s Landfall of Columbus, pp.
The ship had been caught up by a current which had borne it north for the space of fifteen days till landfall was made on the coast of what we now call South Carolina.
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