San Salvador Island

86's elsewhere across Arthur's Town, Black Point, George Town, Deadman's Key, and Port Nelson, Romkey.

85 in Coben Town, San Salvador.

Southeast Bahamas, 85 in Duncan Town.

86's across Colonel Hill, Delectable Bay, Abrahams Bay under some rain-cooled temperatures.

This explains the unusual course of the ethylene hope.

the weather continued fine for three days after passing the latitude of san salvador with a fresh breeze blowing from the northwest which sped the bark on her course so that she logged better than ten knots but on the fourth day the wind swung around to the north and gradually hauled into the northeast and the long steady swells began to rise the captain at once prepared for the gale and ordered the sails trimmed to meet it that the apprehensions of the captain were grave was proven by the precautions taken for not only was the sail shortened to the last extremity but the hatches were securely battened down The barometer began to fall about noon, and from that time the wind increased until it was a blowing gale.

But just after sunset, the wind almost died away, and though the mountainous foam-flecked seas continued.

As the sun went down, the sky rapidly became overcast, and a cloud of inky blackness appeared along the horizon.

Pick up 85s, Arthur's Town, Cat Island, Black Point, Exuma Keys, George Town, Great Exuma.

86 is in Cockburn Town, San Salvador, Port Nelson, Rum Cay, Andover and Deadmans Cay, Long Island.

And into the southeast Bahamas we pick up 86 again in Duncan Town, Ragged Island.

85, Colonel Hill, Cricket Island, Delectable Bay, Acklins, Abrahams Bay, Mayaguana, and Matthew Town, Inagua all 87s.

J. Dryden Kuser, Bernardsville, New Jersey End of Introduction CHAPTER I. SARGASSO AND FLYING FISH For the first two days out of New York Harbor, flocks of herring-coals followed us, and occasionally an odd robin and a pair of goldfinches appeared.

but after hatteras was past and the sea was calmer the gulls left us and flying fish took their place stationed at the bow i watched them dart out of the foam and skim sometimes a few feet often many yards at night i took the same post and the phosphorescent stars of the sea shone very green against the yellow constellations above by the third day ever increasing quantities of sargassa weed appeared and floated past torn from their beds along tropical coasts these bits of weed act as the shelter for multifarious forms of aquatic life which live as long as the weeds live and die when it finally decays and so although no sign of bird or other life appeared above the water's surface we were surrounded every moment by thousands of individuals of dozens of species our ship was the advance of the american government controlled panama rr steamship company which operates the service between new york hayti and panama two steamers run to panama via port au prince hayti three are exclusively for haytian ports while the other do not stop at hayti en route to panama besides the panama line there is the dutch line of boats which runs from new york to haiti on regular sailings but aside from these two there are no other lines which regularly run ships to haiti and so the quickest way of traveling from haiti to another of the west indies is via panama Coming south, the first land appeared on the fourth day, when the lighthouse of San Salvador, renamed Watling's Island by the British, showed the northern point of land long before the rest of the flat surface was visible.

Bird Rock, the Fortune Islands, and Castle Island were passed during the next twelve hours, and finally the high mountains of eastern Cuba were twenty miles off our starboard.

Before these were out of sight, the peak of Mole San Nicolas, Haiti, arose on the port bow.

He then planted the banner of Spain in the ground, and took possession of the country in the name of Ferdinand and Isabella.

This island he called San Salvador, because he and his crew had been saved from a watery grave, and also because October 12th was so named in the Spanish calendar.

Columbus supposed San Salvador to be one of the islands near the coast of Asia, but it is one of the Bahamas.

Thus was America discovered on the 12th of October, 1492.

The natives of this land were different from any people the Spaniards had ever seen.

Sidney Lanier At daybreak of Friday, October 12th, N.S. October 22, the boats were lowered and Columbus, with a large part of his company, went to shore, wild with exultation.

They found that they were on a small island, and Columbus named it San Salvador.

It was one of the Bahamas, but which one is not certainly known.

Columbus Behind him lay the gray Azores Behind the gates of Hercules Before him not the ghost of shores Before him only shoreless seas The good mate said, "Now must we pray For lo, the very stars are gone Brave admiral speak, what shall I say?" "Why say, 'Sail on! Sail on! and on!'" "My men grow mutinous day by day My men grow ghastly wan and weak" The stout mate thought of home, a spray Of salt wave washed his swarthy cheek "What shall I say, brave admiral, say If we sight naught but seas at dawn?" "Why you shall say at break of day 'Sail on! Sail on! Sail on and on!'" They sailed and sailed as winds might blow Until at last the blanched mate said "Why now not even God would know Should I and all my men fall dead These very winds forget their way For God from these dread seas is gone Now speak, brave admiral, speak and say" He said, "Sail on! Sail on and on!" They sailed, they sailed, then spake the mate "This mad sea shows his teeth to-night He lifts his lip, he lies in wait With lifted teeth as if to bite Brave admiral, say but one good word What shall we do when hope is gone?" The word is left like a leaping sword "Sail on! Sail on! Sail on and on!" Then pale and worn he kept his deck And peered through darkness.

The reverent crowns of Leon and Castile, and stands before the tear-filled eyes of all the multitudes the form of Isabella.

Semiramis, Zenobia, what were they to her as met her eyes again the eyes of him into whose hands her love a year before emptied its jewels? He told his tale.

The untried deep, the green Sargasso Sea, the varying compass, the affrighted crews, the hymn they sung on every doubt believed, the sweet hymn to the Virgin, how there came the lamb bird singing and the drifting weeds, how broke the morn on fair San Salvador, how the Te Deum on that isle was sung, and how the cross was lifted in the name of Leon and Castile.

And then he turned his face towards heaven.

Bell says the ministry is also expanding its housing efforts to the family islands, with those communities set to benefit from upcoming projects as well.

We've just came from San Salvador.

We're going back in Elusa to Ocean Hall Estates.

We are in Grand Bahama.