The Life of Columbus

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Hale Edward Everett. The Life of Columbus

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. – EARLY LIFE OF COLUMBUS

CHAPTER II. – HIS PLANS FOR DISCOVERY

CHAPTER III. – THE GREAT VOYAGE

CHAPTER IV. – THE LANDING ON THE TWELFTH OF OCTOBER

CHAPTER V. – LANDING ON CUBA

CHAPTER VI. – DISCOVERY OF HAYTI OR HISPANIOLA

CHAPTER VII. – COLUMBUS IS CALLED TO MEET THE KING AND QUEEN

CHAPTER VIII. – THE SECOND EXPEDITION SAILS

CHAPTER IX. – THE NEW COLONY

CHAPTER X. – THE THIRD VOYAGE

CHAPTER XI. – SPAIN, 1500, 1501

CHAPTER XII. – FOURTH VOYAGE

CHAPTER XIII. – TWO SAD YEARS

APPENDIX A

SUMMARY

APPENDIX B

APPENDIX C

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HIS BIRTH AND BIRTH-PLACE—HIS EARLY EDUCATION—HIS EXPERIENCE AT SEA—HIS MARRIAGE AND RESIDENCE IN LISBON—HIS PLANS FOR THE DISCOVERY OF A WESTWARD PASSAGE TO THE INDIES.

Christopher Columbus was born in the Republic of Genoa. The honor of his birth-place has been claimed by many villages in that Republic, and the house in which he was born cannot be now pointed out with certainty. But the best authorities agree that the children and the grown people of the world have never been mistaken when they have said: “America was discovered in 1492 by Christopher Columbus, a native of Genoa.”

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In doing this, they were, in a fashion, making new discoveries. For Europe was wholly ignorant of the western coast of Africa, beyond the Canaries, when their expeditions began. But all men of learning knew that, five hundred years before the Christian era, Hanno, a Carthaginian, had sailed round Africa under the direction of the senate of Carthage. The efforts of the King of Portugal were to repeat the voyage made by Hanno. In 1441, Gonzales and Tristam sailed as far as Sierra Leone. They brought back some blacks as slaves, and this was the beginning of the slave trade.

In 1446 the Portuguese took possession of the Azores, the most western points of the Old World. Step by step they advanced southward, and became familiar with the African coast. Bold navigators were eager to find the East, and at last success came. Under the king’s orders, in August, 1477, three caravels sailed from the Tagus, under Bartolomeo Diaz, for southern discovery. Diaz was himself brave enough to be willing to go on to the Red Sea, after he made the great discovery of the Cape of Good Hope, but his crews mutinied, after he had gone much farther than his predecessors, and compelled him to return. He passed the southern cape of Africa and went forty miles farther. He called it the Cape of Torments, “Cabo Tormentoso,” so terrible were the storms he met there. But when King John heard his report he gave it that name of good omen which it has borne ever since, the name of the “Cape of Good Hope.”

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