Identifier: discoveryofameri02fisk (find matches)
Title: The discovery of America
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Fiske, John, 1842-1901
Subjects: America -- Discovery and exploration Latin America -- History
Publisher: Boston and New York : Houghton, Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ayght and sawe the way open to the other majTie sea, he was so gladde thereof that for joy the Entering the tears fell from his eyes, and named the Pacific. poynt of the lande from whense he fyrst sawe that sea Capo Desiderato. Supposing that the ship which stole away had byn loste, they erected a crosse uppon the top of a hyghe hyll to direct their course in the straight yf it were theyr chaunce to coome that way. The broad expanse of waters before him seemed so pleasant to Magellan, after the heavy storms through which he had passed, that he called it by the name it still bears, Pacific. But the worst hardships were still before him. Once more a Sea of Darkness must be crossed by brave hearts sickening with hope deferred. If the mid-Atlantic waters had been strange to Columbus and his men, here before Magellans people all was thrice unknown. They were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea; and as they sailed month after month over the waste of waters, the huge size of our planet began
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202 THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. to make itself felt. Until after the middle of December they kept a northward course, near thecoast of the continent, running away from the ant-arctic cold. Then northwesterly and westerly courses were taken, and on the 24th of January, 1521, a small wooded islet was found in water where the longest plununet-lines failed to reach bottom. Already the voyage since issuing from the strait was nearly twice as long as that of Columbus in 1492 from the Canaries to Guanahani. From the useless island, which they called San Pablo, a further run of eleven days brought them to another uninhabited rock, which they called Tiburones, from the quantity of sharks observed Famine and ^ ^^^ neighbourhood. There was scurvy. neither food nor water to be had there, and a voyage of unknown duration, in reality not less than 5,000 English miles, was yet to be accomplished before a trace of land was again to greet their yearning gaze. Their sufferings may best betold in the quaint and to

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