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Meanings of sailing westward in inglés

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Usage of sailing westward in inglés
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The San Vittoria, sailing westward, had come back to her starting-point.
History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science
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His supposed sailing westward carried him in reality south of the latitude of Ireland.
The Dawn of Canadian History : A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada
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We'll have plenty of wind for sailing westward; more than we shall like from all accounts.
The voyage of the dawn treader
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His ingenious reasoning and experiment led him to believe that by sailing westward he would reach India.
The Majesty of Calmness; individual problems and posibilities
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And to this day of his death he imagined that he had reached India by sailing westward.
This Country of Ours
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They believed with the rest of the world that the coast of China had been reached by sailing westward.
A Book of Discovery / The History of the World's Exploration, Fr...
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None thought of sailing westward.
This Country of Ours
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So was Kettle Flatnose, for he was now sailing westward, and he knew that Ireland was somewhere in that direction.
Erling the Bold
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A few years later, Columbus, sailing westward, set up the flag of Spain upon the shores of a new world.
Chatterbox, 1906
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Spain, as you know, had faith in Columbus, and helped him in his plan of trying to reach India by sailing westward.
Discoverers and Explorers
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This glacier was regarded with some interest; for, remarkably enough, it is the last one met with in sailing westward to Melville Island.
Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal / Or, Eighteen Months in the...
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Alexandrian geographers had measured the size of the earth, and had not hesitated to assert that by sailing westward one might reach India.
A History of Science — Volume 2
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He refitted his ship in San Francisco harbor, and thence sailing westward, returned home (1579) by the Cape of Good Hope.
A Brief History of the United States
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August 2nd.-Headwind-sailingwestward-large hummocks of ice ahead, and on port bow, i.e.
Letters from High Latitudes / Being Some Account of a Voyage in ...
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Sailing westward from Madeira (1524), he reached land near the present harbor of Wilmington.
A Brief History of the United States
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Sailing westward with a light and pleasant easterly breeze, in twenty-five days we ran eight hundred leagues.
The Voyage of Verrazzano / A Chapter in the Early History of Mar...
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Sailing westward through the time