Christopher Columbus, on his first voyage to the Americas, sailed south from what is now the Bahamas to explore the northeast coast of Cuba and the northern coast of Hispaniola.

An undated painting of the British Water Witch built in 1831 is labeled OPIUM CLIPPER " WATER WITCH " so the term had at least passed into common usage during the time that this ship sailed.

It is also suggested that the Arabs, who reached Lakshadweep and Maldives around 900 AD, may have visited the Chagos, and that Zheng He may have sailed close in 1413 – 1415, since it is documented on a Ming Dynasty map.

It is possible that Saint Brendan, an Irish monk ( a Papar ) sailed past the islands during his North Atlantic voyage in the 6th century.

While it is difficult to comprehend how Vancouver missed the Fraser River, much of this river's delta was subject to flooding and summer freshet which prevented the captain from spotting any of its great channels as he sailed the entire shoreline from Point Roberts, Washington to Point Grey in 1792.

Ibn Battuta is known to have sailed by boat to Gao where he spent a month learning about its inhabitants and geography.

There is no evidence of a mast, sail or strengthening of the keel amidships but a half sized replica, the Soe Wylfing, sailed very well with a modest sail area.

* The Sea Stallion, the largest Viking ship replica ever made, is a new replica of the Skuldelev 2, and sailed from Roskilde, Denmark to Dublin in summer 2007 to commemorate the voyage of the original.

:... the weight of a multihull, of this length, is probably not much more than half the weight of a monohull of the same length and it can be sailed with less crew effort.

A classic example is The Golden Vanity, which contains the line " As she sailed upon the lowland sea.

However, Pytheas only sailed 560 stadia per day for a total of 23800, which in Nansen's view is consistent with 700 stadia per degree.

Historical accounts of wolves in the southeast by early explorers such as William Hilton, who sailed along the Cape Fear River in what is now North Carolina in 1644, also note that they ate deer.

According to the Mahāvamsa, a chronicle written in Pāli language, the ancient period of Sri Lanka begins in 543 BC with the landing of Vijaya, a semi-legendary king sailed 860 nautical miles on eight ships to Sri Lanka with 700 followers from the southwest coast of what is now the Rarh region of West Bengal.

It is known that ancient Nubia / Axum traded with India, and there is evidence that ships from Northeast Africa may have sailed back and forth between India / Sri Lanka and Nubia trading goods and even to Persia, Himyar and Rome.

In the 16th century, Duarte Barbosa noted that many ships from the Kingdom of Cambaya in what is modern-day India sailed to Mogadishu with cloth and spices, for which they in return received gold, wax and ivory.

The earliest date given for a Viking raid is 787 AD when, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a group of men from Norway sailed to the Isle of Portland in Dorset.

One of the few reasonably consistent pieces of information is that exploration voyages from the main base sailed down both the east and west coasts of the land ; this was one of the factors which helped archaeologists locate the site at L ' Anse Aux Meadows, at the tip of Newfoundland's long northern peninsula.

The members of the expedition, aboard the ships Fogel Grip and Kalmar Nyckel, sailed into Delaware Bay, which lay within the territory claimed by the Dutch, passing Cape May and Cape Henlopen in late March 1638, and anchored at a rocky point on the Minquas Kill that is known today as Swedes ' Landing on March 29, 1638.

Traditionally, historians have believed that the Dorian invasion caused the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization, but it is likely the main attack was made by seafaring raiders ( sea peoples ) who sailed into the eastern Mediterranean around 1180 BC.

It is unclear whether they sailed as far as the modern British Virgin Islands to fish, and the references may be to the present U. S. Virgin Islands.

The next morning, the Persians sailed in to the straits to attack the Greek fleet ; it is not clear when, why or how this decision was made, but it is clear that they did in fact take the battle to the Allies.

One sailing boat unique to the Thames is the Thames Rater, which is sailed around Raven's Ait.

this is not so, for education offers all kinds of dividends, including how to pull the wool over a husband's eyes while you are having an affair with his wife.

As it is in so many affairs of the heart, a man and a woman meet and something clicks.

-- liberal considers that the need for a national economy with controls that will assure his conception of social justice is so great that individual and local liberties as well as democratic processes may have to yield before it.

but he presents it publicly so enmeshed in hypocrisy that it is not an honest one.

And if he is so scornful of the rights of states, why not advocate a different sort of constitution that he could more sincerely support??

The enormous changes in world politics have, however, thrown it into confusion, so much so that it is safe to say that all international law is now in need of reexamination and clarification in light of the social conditions of the present era.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

However, the system is designed, ingeniously and hopefully, so that no one man could initiate a thermonuclear war.

The box is internally wired so the door can never be opened without setting off a screeching klaxon ( `` It's real obnoxious '' ).

They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.

The smell is sexual, but so powerfully so that a civilized nose must deny it.

Nowhere in Isfahan is this rich aesthetic life of the Persians shown so well as during the promenade at the Khaju bridge.

Each mode is believed to have a specific attribute -- one inducing pleasure, another generosity, another love, and so on, to include all of the emotions.

In the meantime, while the South has been undergoing this phenomenal modernization that is so disappointing to the curious Yankee, Southern writers have certainly done little to reflect and promote their region's progress.

He must construct transitions so that a dancer who is told to lie prone one second and to leap wildly the next will have some physical preparation for the leap.

Lucretius has remarked: `` The reason why all Mortals are so gripped by fear is that they see all sorts of things happening in the earth and sky with no discernable cause, and these they attribute to the will of God ''.

Even so astute a commentator as Harold Clurman of The Nation has said that `` Waiting For Godot '' is `` the concentrate of the contemporary European mood of despair ''.

Unruly hair goes straight up from his forehead, standing so high that the top falls gently over, as if to show that it really is hair and not bristle.

it is a mystique, and their private language is rich in the multivalent ambiguities of sexual reference so that they dwell in a sexualized universe of discourse.