id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 23107 Synge, M. B. (Margaret Bertha) A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole .txt text/plain 149631 8942 82 On the coast of the Red Sea they built their long, narrow ships, which sailing down the river Nile and probably reaching the Red Sea by means on to vast stretches of desert-land uninhabited by man, great rivers last "the great ocean opened" east and south to the unknown world and into the great nameless sea, by the coast of that "Large Land whence and the ships were driven south before a north wind till they reached, is said to be an island lying out at sea seven days' sail from the left the west coast of Africa, marched for ten days, reached Mt. Atlas, resolute little party then sailed south, and a voyage of two days King, Henry VII., "to sail to the east, west, or north, with five ships guns, the little English ship sailed along the unknown coast, till the explorer, and discovered a little island which he called New ./cache/23107.txt ./txt/23107.txt