Read the following passage, and then answer the questions.
19 September. Continued on, and sailed, day and night, twenty-five leagues, experiencing a calm. Wrote down twenty-two. This day at ten o’clock a pelican came on board, and in the evening another; these birds are not accustomed to go twenty leagues from land. It drizzled without wind, which is a sure sign of land. The Admiral was unwilling to remain here, beating about in search of land, but he held it for certain that there were islands to the north and south, which in fact was the case and he was sailing in the midst of them. His wish was to proceed on to the Indies, having such fair weather, for if it please God, as the Admiral says, we shall examine these parts upon our return. Here the pilots found their places upon the chart: the reckoning of the Nina made her four hundred and forty leagues distant from the Canaries, that of the Pinta four hundred and twenty, that of the Admiral four hundred.
—Excerpt from Christopher Columbus’s diary of his voyage in 1492
1. Indicate an X next to the statements that helped Columbus know that he and his crew were nearing land.
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They sailed day and night
Two pelicans landed on the boat.
The admiral wanted to keep sailing.
There was a light rain with no wind.