 | Alfred W. Crosby - History - 1993 - 236 pages
...thus Australia's biota is very different from EurasiaAfrica's. Columbus wrote of the West Indies that the trees were "as different from ours as day from night, and so the fruits, the herbage." He was so surprised by the differences in the plants, and animals too, that he even claimed the rocks... | |
 | Alan Taylor - History - 2002 - 548 pages
...fauna, and human cultures found in the Americas. In the West Indies, Christopher Columbus marveled, "All the trees were as different from ours as day...and so the fruits, the herbage, the rocks, and all things." Subsequent explorers recognized the obvious: that the Americas constituted a distinctive,... | |
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I have been here but a short time, halfa day; yet if there were any I couldn't have failed to see them. . . . There were dogs that never barked. . . . All the trees were as different from ours as day from night, and so the fruits, the herbage, the rocks. 