He desired the authority of the throne to make an expedition to the Spice Islands, which he believed he could find by sailing West.
He was now prepared to go to Charles V, King of Spain, son of the demented Queen Joanna, the daughter of Isabella, and to lay before him a plan of opening a short way to the East by sailing West.
Magellan, full of his project of finding a short way to the rich spicery by sailing West, now sought the favor of the Spanish court.
It was supposed that he had found a new route to the Indies by sailing west, and that in the course of this achievement he had discovered some new islands and a bit or bits of Terra Firma of more or less doubtful commercial value.
Many voyages were made, and it became known for certain that Columbus had not reached the shores of India by sailing west, and that a great continent barred the way north as well as south of the Equator.
The more Columbus thought about his plan of sailing westto reach India, the more he believed in it, and the more he longed to set out.
Why then, if that were so, India could be reached by sailing west as well as by sailing east.
To find that way never known before, and by sailing westto reach the east "where the spices grow" seemed to him " a thing more divine than human.
Columbus thought he could reach the rich cities of the East by sailing west.
From men who accepted Aristotle's teaching about the shape of the earth, Columbus, the discoverer of America, got his idea of sailing west to find eastern countries.
He further informed the king that he had come from the "Indies," which he had reached by sailing west.
The first passage of the Cape was thus made while sailing west, just as, possibly, the mariners of the Indian seas may have done.
In the mean time a way had at last been found to reach the Orient from Europe by sailing west.
In the same year that Columbus discovered the Orinoco, Sebastian Cabot, of Italian parentage, like Columbus, secured ships from the king of England, hoping to reach China and Japan by sailing west on a northern route.
The idea of sailing west to India did not originate with him, but his is the immortal glory of having persistently sought the means and put the idea into execution.
He contendeth that the earth is a sphere, and that, by sailing west, he can reach points that have been already attained by journeying east.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sailing west" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
