EBOOK CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ***
Produced by Tonya Allen, Charles Franks
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
TRUE STORIES OF GREAT AMERICANS
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
BY
MILDRED STAPLEY
Whatever can be known of earth we know,
Sneered Europe's wise men, in their snail shells curled;
No! said one man in Genoa, and that No
Out of the dark created the New World.
--JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I COLUMBUS BEFRIENDED BY ROYALTY
CHAPTER II THE YOUTH OF COLUMBUS
CHAPTER III "LANDS IN THE WEST"
CHAPTER IV THE SOJOURN IN MADEIRA
CHAPTER V A SEASON OF WAITING
CHAPTER VI A RAY OF HOPE
CHAPTER VII ISABELLA DECIDES
CHAPTER VIII OFF AT LAST!
CHAPTER IX "LAND! LAND!"
CHAPTER X NATIVES OF THE NEW LAND
CHAPTER XI THE RETURN IN THE _NINA_
CHAPTER XII DAYS OF TRIUMPH
CHAPTER XIII PREPARING FOR A SECOND VOYAGE
CHAPTER XIV FINDING NEW ISLANDS
CHAPTER XV ON A SEA OF TROUBLES
CHAPTER XVI THE THIRD VOYAGE
CHAPTER XVII A RETURN IN DISGRACE
CHAPTER XVIII PUBLIC SYMPATHY
CHAPTER XIX THE LAST VOYAGE
CHAPTER XX THE COURAGE OF DIEGO MENDEZ
CHAPTER XXI "INTO PORT"
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
CHAPTER I
COLUMBUS BEFRIENDED BY ROYALTY
Spain, as every one knows, was the country behind the discovery of
America.
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