And I know of other findings.
Whence do these things come?
"May there not be unknown islands west of Azores?
They might come from there, and still to the west of them stream all Ocean-Sea, violent and unknown! The learned think the earth of such a size.

Your Arabian holds it smaller.

What if it is larger than the largest calculation ?" He said with disdain, "All the wise men at Salamanca before whom the King set me six years ago thought it had no end! Large or small, they called it blasphemy for me, a poor, plain seaman, son of a wool-comber and not even a Spanish wool-comber, to try to stretch mind over it! Ocean-Sea had never been overpassed, and by that token could not be overpassed! None had met its dangers, so dangers there must be of a most strange and fearful nature! But if you were put to sea at fourteen and have lived there long, water becomes water! A speck on the horizon will turn out ship or land.

Wave carries you on to wave, day to night and night to day.

At last there is port!" All this time his horse had been cropping the scanty herbage.