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They are a sailor’s paradise because the numerous safe anchorages and bays have been enhanced in modern times by comprehensive back-up facilities for sailors.
Long before the first European sailors beached in the Canaries, all seven islands were inhabited.
The town lies on the coast at Elizabeth Harbour, a large, sheltered stretch of water that is a popular stopping off point for sailors.
One is the slight ripple on the surface of an otherwise flat sea, interpreted by sailors as portending a breeze.
English speakers who used the charts read mar as mare `female horse,' which was later generalized to horse . Another possibility is that the origin was French golfe de la mer or latitude de la mer , French mer being quite close in sound to English mare , which was later generalized to horse . A third possibility is that the waters were populated by manatees, which might have been likened to horses, not too farfetched a suggestion when one considers that sailors are said to have imagined them to be mermaids.