The second piece—hearing from sailors in the African port that they often saw logs washed up on shore that seemed to have been carved by human hands—confirmed his experience in Galway with the two Native American corpses: Asia, apparently, was close. Thirdly, in São Jorge da Mina Columbus gleaned an understanding of the Atlantic’s predominant patterns of wind and current. On the West African coast, the prevailing winds blow out to sea, and the ocean’s dominant current is to the west as well.
