 | Emily Taylor - Didactic fiction - 1820 - 286 pages
...length, when they had saile<i about 700 leagues west of the Canaries, he was obliged to yield so far, as to promise that if they did not see land in three days, he would return homewards. Upon this the sailors were a little pacified, and they pursued the voyage more cheerfully.... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - Readers (Elementary) - 1828 - 238 pages
...clouds. Then they grew so violent again, that he knew not how to appease them, and at last, they say, he was obliged to promise, that if they did not see land in three days he would consent to give it up and sail home again. But he was now almost sure that land was not far off —... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - Readers - 1833 - 236 pages
...clouds. Then they grew so violent again, that he knew not how to appease them, and at last, they say, he was obliged to promise, that if they did not see land in three days he would consent to give it up and sail home again. But he was now almost sure that land was not far off —... | |
 | Peter Parley (pseud.) - 1862 - 228 pages
...quiet for a week longer ; they then grew so violent again that at last he was obliged to promise them that if they did not see land in three days, he would consent to give it up and sail home again. But he was now almost sure that land was not far off : the... | |
 | Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick - United States - 1888 - 216 pages
...They threatened to throw Columbus overboard if he did not turn back. At last Columbus promised them that if they did not see land in three days he would return to Spain. You can imagine how anxious Columbus must have been durin» those three days. He felt... | |
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... made them a speech which had such an effect upon them that they became tolerably quiet for a week longer. Several times indeed they fancied they saw islands at a distance ; but they proved to be only clouds. Then they grew so violent again, that he... 