After the Admiral spoke of it

　　"After the Admiral spoke of it, the light was seen once or twice. It waslike a wax candle, raised and lowered, which would appear to few to be asign of land. But the Admiral was certain that it was a sign of land.
　　Therefore when they said the "Salve," which all the sailors are used to say and sing in their fashion, the Admiral ordered them to look out well fromthe forecastle, and he would give at once a silk jacket to the man who firstsaw land, besides the other rewards which the sovereigns had ordered,which were 10,000 maravedis,http://www.rolexsubmarinerreplica.info/, to be paid as an annuity forever to the manwho saw it first.
　　"At two hours after midnight land appeared, from which they wereabout two leagues off."This is the one account of the discovery written at the time. It is worthcopying and reading at full in its little details, for it contrasts curiouslywith the embellished accounts which appear in the next generation. Thusthe historian Oviedo says, in a dramatic way:
　　"One of the ship boys on the largest ship, a native of Lepe, cried 'Fire!'
　　'Land!' Immediately a servant of Columbus replied, 'The Admiral had saidthat already.' Soon after, Columbus said, 'I said so some time ago, and thatI saw that fire on the land,replica chanel bags.' " And so indeed it happened that Thursday, attwo hours after midnight, the Admiral called a gentleman namedEscobedos, officer of the wardrobe of the king, and told him that he sawfire. And at the break of day, at the time Columbus had predicted the daybefore, they saw from the largest ship the island which the Indians callGuanahani to the north of them.
　　"And the first man to see the land, when day came, was Rodrigo ofTriana, on the eleventh day of October, 1492." Nothing is more certainthan that this was really on the twelfth.
　　The reward for first seeing land was eventually awarded to Columbus,and it was regularly paid him through his life. It was the annual paymentof 10,000 maravedis. A maravedi was then a little less than six cents of ourcurrency. The annuity was, therefore, about six hundred dollars a year.
　　The worth of a maravedi varied, from time to time, so that thecalculations of the value of any number of maravedis are very confusing.
　　Before the coin went out of use it was worth only half a cent.
Chapter 4
　　THE LANDING ON THE TWELFTH OF OCTOBER--THENATIVES AND THEIR NEIGHBORS--SEARCH FOR GOLD-CUBA DISCOVERED--COLUMBUS COASTS ALONG ITSSHORES.
　　It was on Friday, the twelfth of October, that they saw this island,which was an island of the Lucayos group, called, says Las Casas, "in thetongue of the Indians, Guanahani." Soon they saw people naked, and theAdmiral went ashore in the armed boat, with Martin Alonzo Pinzon and,Vicente Yanez, his brother, who was captain of the Nina. The Admiralunfurled the Royal Standard, and the captain's two standards of the GreekCross, which the Admiral raised on all the ships as a sign, with an F. and aY.; over each letter a crown; one on one side of the {"iron cross symbol"}
　　and the other on the other,fake chanel bags. When they were ashore they saw very greentrees and much water,nike heels, and fruits of different kinds.