The magazine of American history with notes and queries . That the Admiral blended them in his writing is a warning to investigatorsto discriminate between his ideal descriptions and his log. The formerexpress the mental condition of a religious enthusiast, who, after eighteenyears of painful solicitation, found the fruition of his hopes among thelittle islands of the Bahamas. The log is the professional record of THE FIRST LANDFALL OF COLUMBUS 249 seamen ; the courses, distances, trend of coasts, direction of winds, etc., arepurely technical matters that seamen are not likely to put down unde
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . That the Admiral blended them in his writing is a warning to investigatorsto discriminate between his ideal descriptions and his log. The formerexpress the mental condition of a religious enthusiast, who, after eighteenyears of painful solicitation, found the fruition of his hopes among thelittle islands of the Bahamas. The log is the professional record of THE FIRST LANDFALL OF COLUMBUS 249 seamen ; the courses, distances, trend of coasts, direction of winds, etc., arepurely technical matters that seamen are not likely to put down under theinfluence of their imagination. Nor are these things capable of exaggera-tion. Twelve fathoms, southeast wind, east and west coast line, shoalwater to the southward, mean precisely what is said, and these words canbe relied upon, unless a clerical error has been made. This paper is aneffort to separate the log from the narrative, and to plot that on acorrect chart. If the Crooked Island group is chosen for the second island, No. it is because the dimensions and trend of the two sides of it that Columbussaw conform to the log. The track goes to Long Island for the third,because the bearing and distance to it from the second are those givenby him. All his experiences at the third island fit only at Long courses steered, and estimated distances from the South Cape of LongIsland, point to Fortune as the fourth. So do the courses and distancesworked backward from the South Ragged. This evidence ought to beenough to withstand the fallacy of objections concerning Fortune it shall be admitted that the Crooked group is the second island of 250 THE FIRST LANDFALL OF COLUMBUS Columbus, it cannot be denied that Samana is his first. October 13th, theday preceding his departure from Guanahani, the Admiral wrote : I de-termined to wait until to-morrow evening, and then to sail for the southwest, for many of them told me that there was land to the south and to the
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