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FRIDAY, AUGUST 3rd: On Friday, the third day of August, of the year 1492, at eight o'clock, we set out from the bar of Saltés. We went with a strong sea-breeze sixty miles to the southward, that is, fifteen leagues, before sunset; afterwards, to the south-west and south by west which was the course for the Canaries.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 4th: They went to the south-west by south.