Excerpt from Scenes and Incidents of Domestic and Foreign Travel: With Sketches in Natural History, and Poetical Selections He consulted the opinions of old authors and travel lers. He also made inquiry with respect to all the ih dications of land. One navigator, when four hundred leagues west from Cape St. Vincent, had taken from the water a piece of carved wood, which evidently had not been wrought with an iron instrument. As the winds had drifted it from the west, it might have come from some unknown land in that direction. Pedro correa, his brother-in-law, told him that after a course of westerly winds, immense reeds were seen on the island of Porto Santo. Also pine-trees were wafted to the shores of the Azores; and, on one occasion, the dead bodies of two men were cast upon the Island of Flores, whose features differed from those of any known race of people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.