The gourd had a kind of pattern cut around it.

He showed it to the Admiral and afterwards gave it to him.

The latter caused it to pass from hand to hand among the seamen.

I had it in my hands and truly saw no reason why it might not have been cut by some native of the West, and, carried away by the tide or dropped perchance from a boat, have at last, after long time, come into hands not Indian.

Asia tossing unthinkingly a ball which Europe caught.
The _Pinta_ proved in worse plight than was at first thought.