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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6th: He set out on that day in the morning from the harbour of Gomera and shaped his course to proceed upon his voyage; and the admiral learned from a caravel, which came from the island of Hierro, that three caravels of Portugal were cruising there, in order to take him. This must have been due to the envy which the king felt because he had gone to Castile. And he went all that day and night in a calm, and in the morning he found himself between Gomera and Tenerife.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7th: All Friday and Saturday, until three o'clock at night, he was becalmed.