 | 1828 - 722 pages
...Segovia, and made the same inquiry. By the time the latter had ascended the round-house, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams ; as it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves ; or in the hand of some... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1828 - 882 pages
...Segovia, and made the same inquiry. By the time the latter had ascended the round-house, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards...fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves ; or in the baad of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and... | |
 | English literature - 1828 - 438 pages
...Segovia, and made the same inquiry. By the time the latter had ascended the round-house, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards...the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the wares : or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house.... | |
 | 1829 - 762 pages
...Segovia, and made the same inquiry. By the time the latter had ascended the round-house, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams ; as it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves; or in the hand of some... | |
 | Washington Irving - Biography & Autobiography - 1829 - 346 pages
...Segovia, and made the same inquiry. By the time the latter had ascended the round house, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and pass• ing gleams, as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves;... | |
 | 1830 - 428 pages
...of Segovia, and made the same inquiry. By the time,the latter bad ascended As round-bouse, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards...fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves; or in the hands of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - America - 1833 - 290 pages
...same direction, and they also perceived the light — again and again it appeared and disappeared, " as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman,...borne up and down as he walked from house to house." At two in the morning, the Pinta fired a gun, the joyful signal of land. It was first descried by a... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - United States - 1833 - 366 pages
...ascended the round-house, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice allerwimls. in sudden r.nd passing gleams, as if it were a torch in the bark...sinking with the waves, or in the hand of some person on snore, borne up and down ns he walked from house to house. So transient and uncertain were these gleams.... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - United States - 1834 - 364 pages
...Sanchez, of Segovia, and made the inquiry. By the time the latter had ascended the round-house, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards,...it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising aud sinking with the waves. or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked... | |
 | 1840 - 210 pages
...disappeared. They saw it onee or j twiee afterwards in sudden and passing gleams, as if it were a toreh in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves ; or in the hands of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and... | |
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... of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and uncertain were these gleams, that few attached any importance to them ; Columbus, however, considered them as certain signs of land, and, moreover, that... 
