"The Coast of America Has Appeared”
It had been about 1 month since Santa Maria left the Cayman Islands, when the dates indicated the morning of September 11, 1511, at exactly 09.11, a loud shouting was heard from the porch of the captain"s room. It was the bushy voice of Ruiz, his vice-captain and aide-de-camp:
- "Land ahoy! Hooray, land has appeared. Look, there"s a huge chunk of land ahead, like it"s extending forever. Get up, everyone on board!”
Everyone got up from their cabins and filled the deck with this sound. Because now everyone in Santa Maria was witnessing a historic moment. For the first time in world history, a fleet of ships headed west had managed to reach the coast of America. Exactly 5 years after Columbus"s death, his cry and joy when he saw land on the coast of Hisp
