 All of a sudden, as is wont to happen to navigators, a violent contrary wind blew in from the sea, and forced us to return to our ship, greatly regretting to leave this region which seemed so commodious and delightful, and which we supposed must also...  Stories of Discovery Told by Discoverers - Page 114by Edward Everett Hale - 1883 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
 | New-York Historical Society - 1841 - 518 pages
...other, rilled with multitudes who came to see us. All of a sudden, as is wont to happen to navigators, a violent contrary wind blew in from the sea, and...hills showed many indications of minerals. Weighing ancher, we sailed fifty leagues towards the east, as the coast stretched in that direction, and always... | |
 | New Jersey Historical Society - 1846 - 212 pages
...boat, and ascended a little above the Narrows, when suddenly a violent wind forced him back to the ship " greatly regretting to leave this region which seemed so commodious and delightful." He left without landing, which accounts for the natives having, after the Dutch settlement, no recollection... | |
 | JOHN ROMEYN BRODHEAD - 1853 - 838 pages
...other, filled with multitudes who came to see us. All of a sudden, as is wont to happen to navigators, a violent contrary wind blew in from the sea, and...we supposed must also contain great riches, as the hiils showed many indications of minerals,"— Letter to King Francis I., of July 8, 1524, translated... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1873 - 388 pages
...other, filled with multitudes who came to see us. All of a sudden, as is wont to happen to navigators, a violent contrary wind blew in from the sea, and...as the hills showed many indications of minerals." In the year 1609, a band of Dutch merchants, called the East India Company, fitted out an expedition... | |
 | John Romeyn Brodhead - 1874 - 836 pages
...other, tilled with multitudes who came to see us. All of a sudden, as Is wont to happen to navigators, a violent contrary wind blew in from the sea, and...the hills showed many indications of minerals."— Letter to King Francis I., of July 8, 1524, trai slated by Mr. Cogswell, in NYHS Coll., i. (second... | |
 | HENRY G. MURPHY - 1875 - 222 pages
...All of a sudden, as is wont to happen to navigators, a violent contrary wind blew in from the sea9 and forced us to return to our ship, greatly regretting...indications of minerals. Weighing anchor, we sailed eighty (ottanta) leagues towards APPENDIX, the east, as the coast stretched in that direction, and always... | |
 | Henry Cruse Murphy - 1875 - 230 pages
...other, filled with multitudes who came to see us. All of a sudden, as is wont to happen to navigators, a violent contrary wind blew in from the sea, and...supposed must also contain great riches, as the hills flhowed many indications of minerals. Weighing anchor, we sailed^Afy (ottanta) leagues towards the... | |
 | James Watson Gerard - 1875 - 58 pages
...league, when we found it " formed a most beautiful lake three leagues in circuit. All of il a sudden a violent, contrary wind blew in from the sea, and..."region, which seemed so commodious and delightful." The first of civilized men, Verrazano gazed upon the virgin beauties of our isle, " Manhatta," then... | |
 | Henry Cruse Murphy - 1875 - 230 pages
...took the boat and entering the river we found the country on its banks well peopled. All of a sudden a violent contrary wind blew in from the sea, and forced us to return to our ship. Weighing anchor, we sailed eighty leagues towards the east, as the coast stretched in that direction,... | |
 | Barnard Shipp - 1881 - 720 pages
...other, filled with multitudes who came to see us. All of a sudden, as is wont to lu,ppen to navigators, a violent contrary wind blew in from the sea, and...indications of minerals.* Weighing anchor we sailed f,fty leagues towards the east, as the coast stretched in that direction, and always in sight of it;... | |
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