For
seven days and as many nights we coursed
through the air, and on the eighth we saw a great
earth in the air like an island, bright and round,
and shining with a great light. We made for it,
came to anchor, and went ashore. On examining
the country we found it inhabited and cultivated.
By day we could see nothing from it, but when
night came on many other islands appeared in
the neighborhood, some larger and some smaller,
of the color of fire, and a certain other earth below them with cities on it, and rivers and seas and
forests and mountains. This we judged was our
own.