Seas Thick With Turtles, Christopher Columbus
1492 • Coasting among the islands of the Jardin de la Reina in southern Cuba
“In those twenty leagues . . . the seas was thick with turtles . . . so numerous that it seemed the ships would run aground on them and were as if bathing in them.”
— Christopher Columbus
Safina, Carl. Voyage of the Turtle: in Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur. New York: Holt, 2006. 188
The Mighty Orinoco, George Roux, Venezuela, 1898.
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