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Charles Kendall Adams. Christopher Columbus: His Life and His Work
Christopher Columbus: His Life and His Work
Table of Contents
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
CHAPTER I. EARLY YEARS
CHAPTER II. ATTEMPTS TO SECURE ASSISTANCE
CHAPTER III. THE FIRST VOYAGE
CHAPTER IV. THE SECOND VOYAGE
CHAPTER V. THE THIRD VOYAGE
CHAPTER VI. THE FOURTH VOYAGE
CHAPTER VII. LAST DAYS.—DEATH.—CHARACTER
INDEX
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Charles Kendall Adams
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Though the occasion of such debts is purely hypothetical, it is not difficult to conjecture how they may have occurred. In the fifteenth century the commercial enterprise and opportunities of Lisbon attracted thither a large number of wealthy Florentine and Genoese merchants. We are informed that they were engaged in various commercial ventures; and nothing could be more natural than that they should be ready to avail themselves of the maritime skill of their young countryman. In the journal of Columbus, under the date of Dec. 21, 1492, he wrote:—
“I have navigated the sea during twenty-three years, without noteworthy interruption; I have seen all the Levant and the Ponent; what is called the Northern Way—that is England; and I have sailed to Guinea.”
