A Voyage of Discovery Into the South Sea And Beerings Straits for the Purpose
A Voyage of Discovery Into the South Sea And Beerings Straits for the Purpose
Kotzebue Otto Von
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oo many travellers have visited TenerifFe, that, to give a description of it, would only be a repetition of what others have said j and besides our stay was too short to make any interesting observ- ations. On the 1st of November we left the town of St. Cruz, with a fresh N. E. Wind, and flattered ourselves with the hopes, that we should soon lose sight of the Canaries ; but we were scarcely ten miles from the shore, when there fell a dead calm, and we beheld the Pico unclouded in all its ma- j...esty. After several hours, a faint S. W. Wind suffered us to tack between the islands of Teneriffe and Canaria, which we continued to do during the night. On the following morning, we found our- selves at the point, where there is supposed to be a rock, between the two islands ; but as we sailed between them several times, I am inclined to be- lieve that it does not exist. On the 3d, we had already fallen in with the monsoon ; and at noon the Pico was scarcely visi- ble. In the neighbourhood of the Cape Verd islands, our crew were seized with a violent colic.
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