nd Canary as before, but at this time their vessels were in good
condition and there was no dissatisfaction among the crews. From
this time the voyage across the ocean was short. On the third day of
November, 11 the Sunday after All Saints Day had dawned, a pilot on the
ship cried out to the captain that he saw land. "So great was the joy
among the people, that it was marvellous to hear the shouts of pleasure
on all hands. And for this there was much reason because the people were
so much fatigued by the hard life and by the water which they drank that
they all hoped for land with much desire."

The reader will see that this is the ejaculation of a tired landsman;
one might say, of a tired scholar, who was glad that even the short
voyage was at an end. Some of the pilots supposed that the distance
which they had run was eight hundred leagues from Ferro; others thought
it was seven hundred and eighty. As the light increased, there were
two islands in sight the first was mountainous, being the island of
"Dominica," which still retains that name, of the Sunday when it was
discovered; the other, the island of Maria Galante, is more level, but
like the first, as it is described by Dr. Chanca, it was well wooded.
The island received its name from the ship that Columbus commanded. In
all, they discovered six islands on this day.

Finding no harbor which satisfied him in Dominica, Columbus landed on
the island of Maria Galante, and took possession of it in the name of
the king and queen. Dr. Chanca expresses the amazement which everyone
had felt on the other voyage, at the immense variety of trees, of fruits
and of flowers, which to this hour is the joy of the traveller in the
West Indies.

"In this island was such thickness of forest that it was wonderful, and
such a variety of trees, unknown to anyone, that it was terrible, some
with fruit, some with flowers, so that everything was green. * * * There
were wild fruits of different sorts, which some not very wise men tried,
and, on merely tasting them, touching them with their tongues, their
faces swelled and they had such great burning and pain that they seemed
to rage (or to have hydrophobia). They were cured with cold things."
This fruit is supposed to have been the manchireel, which is known to
produce such effects.

They found no inhabitants on this island and went on to another, now
called Guadeloupe. It received this name from its resemblance to a
province of the sam