The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library. Edward Wilson-Lee

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СКАЧАТЬ During the storm they were separated from the Vizcaína, and though they managed to find her a few days later, they had in the meantime been surrounded by sharks, an encounter that allowed Hernando to describe the sight of a bite from one of these creatures and to record they found, in the sharks’ bellies, a whole turtle and the head of another shark. This might seem impossible, Hernando observed, were it not for the fact that the shark’s mouth reaches from the tip of its olive-shaped head almost down to its stomach. They caught and ate a number of the sharks, which provided a welcome relief from the worm-riddled porridge made of ship’s biscuit. The humidity had made it so thick with insects, Hernando writes, that he saw many of the crew wait until after nightfall to eat so they didn’t have to face the sight of their food; they had long since given up trying to pick the worms out, as this simply meant throwing away one’s dinner.17

      On the Feast of the Epiphany, 6 January, the fleet finally regained the position they had held two months earlier, among the estuary mouths in Veragua. The name of Belén (Bethlehem) was chosen for the river called Yebra in the local tongue, in honour of the day on which the Magi found Jesus. While the river mouth provided some protection from the storms that continued to trouble the open ocean, it was not without its own dangers. The ships were barely able to enter the shallow inlet, which was no more than four fathoms deep, and although safe from the waves once inside they soon realised they faced a threat from another direction. Shortly after they arrived in Belén a flash flood swept down from the mountains a little way inland, snapped loose one of the Capitana

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