It was as though some one had with laughter tossed them that assurance over the horizon straight before us.
Every mariner now was emulous to be the lookout, every man kept eyes on the west.

Now sprang clear and real to them the royal promise of ten thousand maravedies pension to him who first sighted Cipango, Cathay or India.

The Admiral added a prize of a green velvet doublet.
We had come nigh eight hundred leagues.
In the cabin, upon the table he spread Toscanelli's map, and beside it a great one like it, of his own making, signed in the corner _Columbus de Terra Rubra_.

The depiction was of a circle, and in the right or eastern side showed the coasts of Ireland and England, France, Spain and Portugal, and of Africa that portion of which anything was known.

Out in Ocean appeared the islands gained in and since Prince Henry's day.