At half-past four P.M.it was abeam.

The haze in the meantime had disappeared.

Flores is one hundred and seventy-four miles from Fayal, and although it is a high island, it remained many years undiscovered after the principal group of the islands had been colonized.
Early on the morning of July 20 I saw Pico looming above the clouds on the starboard bow.

Lower lands burst forth as the sun burned away the morning fog, and island after island came into view.

As I approached nearer, cultivated fields appeared, "and oh, how green the corn!" Only those who have seen the Azores from the deck of a vessel realize the beauty of the mid-ocean picture.
[Illustration: The island of Pico.] At 4:30 P.M.I cast anchor at Fayal, exactly eighteen days from Cape Sable.