It came from the west, the wind having blown for days from that quarter.

I ask you will empty billows fell a tree and trim it and carve it?
It is said that a Portuguese pilot picked up one like it off Cape Bojador when the wind was southwest.

I have heard a man of the Azores tell of giant reeds pitched upon his shore _from the west_.

There is a story of the finding on the beach of Flores the bodies of two men not like any that we know either in color or in feature.

For days a west wind had driven in the seas.