FIRST LANDFALL. 



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II Mi: I s'S FIRST LANDFALL. The til F.idav [<),(. 12], when they reached a Hmall 



place when 1 Columliiis lirsl landed mi t lie- island of toe Lucuyos called fiimmi/nini \>y the 



" 



continent has loni; licen a matter of natives." This island In- called San Salvador, 

 A 11 i hat is known on the subject is and ho described it as "very largo and very level, 

 ken from l.a> ( H.SIIS'S abridgment of Colum- and has very green trees and abundance of water 



FIRST VOYAGE OF 

 COLUMBUS 



THROUGH THE BAHAMAS 



ns's journal or log-book. UnderdateofOct.il and a very large lagoon in the middle, without 



says: " Two hours after midnight the land ap- any mountain, and all is covered with verdure 



pared, about two leagues off. They lowered all most pleasing to the eye." Subsequently he I** 



ie sails, leaving only a storm square sail, which fers to a " reef of rocks which entirely surrounds 



the mainsail without bonnets, and lay to un- that island, although there is within it depth 



