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Captain Arthur Knowles and his First Mate Harold Sherman used a neat expression for the sky when a cool northwesterly breeze swept over the bay clearing out every vestige of cloud except those low to the southeast, where the warm water of the Gulf Stream condensed as a ragged range of billowy clouds.
La Palma, the most northwesterly of the Canaries, has two nicknames — La Isla Bonita (the beautiful island) and La Isla Verde (the green island), and both are suitable.