gave a of further difficulties to be apprehended fix m partly on and all full of doubt and trivial obstacles might in the present critical stage of his voyage spread panic and through bis ships and entirely defeat the purpose of the expedition the wind was blowing strongly at the time so that be could not render assistance without his own vessel fortunately martin and being an and able seaman he in the with so as to bring the t p vol i life and voyages of into management this however was but a temporary and inadequate expedient the gave way again on the following day and the other ships were obliged to sail until the could be secured this state of the as well as her being in a condition determined the admiral to touch at the islands and seek a vessel to replace her he considered himself not far those islands though a different opinion was entertained by the of the the event proved his superiority in taking observations and keeping for they came in sight of the on the morning of the th they were detained upwards of three weeks among these islands seeking in vain to find another vessel they were obliged therefore to make a new for the and repair her as well as they were able for the voyage the sails of the were also altered into square sails that she might work more steadily and securely and be able to keep company with the other vessels while sailing among these islands they passed in sight of t whose peak was sending out volumes of flame and smoke the crew were terrified at sight of this being ready to take alarm at any extraordinary phenomenon and to it into a disastrous took great pains to their apprehensions explaining the natural causes of those fires and his explanations by mount and other well known while taking in wood water and provisions in the island of a vessel arrived from which reported that three had been seen hovering off that island with the intention it was said of the admiral suspected some hostile on the part of the king of in revenge for his having em mv i � in the service of spain he therefore lost no time in putting to sea anxious to get far from those islands and out of the track of trembling lest something might occur to defeat his expedition commenced under such circumstances and voyages of chapter of the voyage � first notice of the of the needle early in the morning of the sixth of september set sail from the island of and dow might be said first to strike into the region of discovery taking leave of these frontier islands of the old world and westward for the unknown parts of the atlantic for three days however a profound calm kept the vessels with sails within a short distance of the land this was a delay to who was impatient to find himself launched far upon the ocean out of sight of either land or sail which in the pure of these may be at an immense distance on the following sunday the th of september at daybreak he beheld the last of the islands about nine distant this was the island from whence the had been seen he was therefore in the very neighbourhood of danger fortunately a breeze sprang up with the sun their sails were once more filled and in the course of the day the heights of gradually faded from the horizon on losing sight of this last trace of land the hearts of the failed them they seemed literally to have taken leave of the world behind them was every thing dear to the heart of man country family friends life itself before them every thing was chaos mystery and peril in the per fi of the they of ever more se ng their homes of the rugged shed tears and some broke into load the admiral tried in every way to their distress and to inspire with his own glorious he described to them the magnificent countries to which he was about to conduct them the islands of the indian seas with gold and stones he regions of and with their cities of wealth and splendour he promised them land and riches and every thing that could arouse their or their nor were these promises made for purposes of mere deception certainly believed that he should realize them all he now issued orders to the of the other vessels that in the event of separation by any accident they should continue directly westward but that after sailing seven hundred they lay by from midnight until daylight as at about that distance he confidently expected to find land in the meantime as he thought it possible he might not discover land within the distance thus assigned and as he foresaw hat the vague terrors already awakened among the would increase with the space which between them and their homes he commenced a which he continued throughout the voyage he kept two one correct in which the true way of the ship was noted and which was retained in secret for his own government in the other which was open to general inspection a number of was daily from the sailing of the ship so that the were kept in ignorance of the real distance they had advanced it has been stated that kept tv a it was merely in the reckoning or log book that he life and voyages op on the th of september when about one hundred and ty west of they fell in with a part of a mast which from its size appeared to have belonged to a vessel of about a hundred and twenty tons and which had evidently been a long time in the water the alive to every thing that could excite their hopes or fears 