"Canary Islands" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... chilly storms. In the southern promontories, among red sandstone hills, still linger survivors of that more genial clime—groves of arbutus that speak of Greece or Sicily; ferns, as at Killarney, found elsewhere only in the south, in Portugal, or the Canary Islands. ...
— Ireland, Historic and Picturesque • Charles Johnston
... sail in the beginning of January, 1599, and within six days, favoured by a fresh breeze, the vessels sighted the Canary Islands. Two months and six days later the armada drew near to the island called La Desirade, which is the first island approached in this passage to the Indies. The ships anchored for the first time at Nacou, which is one of the finest ports of the Guadeloupe. After having passed Marguerite ...
— The Makers of Canada: Champlain • N. E. Dionne
... from France to the Canary Islands, on the 10th of July following, we passed between these isles and that of Palma, about three ...
— Perils and Captivity • Charlotte-Adelaide [nee Picard] Dard
... content with so simple an explanation. He scents a swindler. The trade of Wonersh, he writes, "chiefly consisted in making blue cloth for the Canary Islands; the decay and indeed ruin of their trade was their avaricious method of stretching their cloth from 18 yards to 22 or 23, which being discovered abroad, they returned their commodity on their hands and it would sell at no market. ...
— Highways and Byways in Surrey • Eric Parker |
