Variant translation: At two hours after midnight appeared the land, at a distance of two leagues. They handed all sails and set the treo, which is the mainsail without bonnets, and lay-to waiting for daylight Friday, when they arrived at an island of the Bahamas that was called in the Indians' tongue Guanahani.
As translated in Journals and Other Documents on the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (1963) by Samuel Eliot Morison, p. 64
Journal of the First Voyage
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) English poet
Qua Cursum Ventus. Compare: "Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing", Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874), Pt. III, The Theologian's Tale: Elizabeth, sec. IV.
Harry Gordon Selfridge (1858–1947) America born English businessman
The Romance of Commerce (1918), A Representative Business of the Twentieth Century
“Up the River of Death
Sailed the Great Admiral!”
Henry Howard Brownell (1820–1872) American writer and historian
The River Fight (published 1864).
“They sailed away for a year and a day
To the land where the bong-tree grows.”
Edward Lear The Owl and the Pussycat
St. 2.
The Owl and the Pussycat (1871)
“Such patience have the heroes who begin,
Sailing the first toward lands which others win.”
George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator
The Legend of Jubal (1869)
Context: Such patience have the heroes who begin,
Sailing the first toward lands which others win.
Jubal must dare as great beginners dare,
Strike form's first way in matter rude and bare,
And, yearning vaguely toward the plenteous choir
Of the world's harvest, make one poor small lyre.
Gary Paulsen (1939) American writer and musher
Source: Caught by the Sea
“Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.”
Shunryu Suzuki (1904–1971) Japanese Buddhist missionary
“A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.”
Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist
