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ATE in the evening on the first of August, we got under sail, in company with the Adventure. A North-east wind forwarded our course so well, that we got sight of Palma on the fourth, early in the morning. This island is one of the group now called the Canaries, known to the ancients by the name of Insulæ Fortunatæ, one of them being already at that time distinguished by the name of Canaria. They were entirely forgotten in Europe, till towards the end of the fourteenth century, when the spirit of navigation and discovery was revived. Some adventurers then found them again, and the Biscayans landed on Lanzarota, and carried off one hundred and

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