Discovery And Exploration of America a book for American Boys And Girls
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May passed away ; June came and went ; and yet the little vessels were not fitted out. July passed and August began before the ships were ready ; but then every difficulty had been overcome, and as the sun rose on Friday, the third of August, three frail barques slowly steered toward the southwest, bearing ninety sailors, a physician, a surgeon, several priests, some gentlemen and servants, in all one hundred and twenty persons, with provisions for a year. It was not a gay party upon which that... morning 52 SOLEMN FAREWELLS. [149Z sun looked down. Every man was filled with a sense of the awfulness of the enterprise. Columbus had gone to church, and had taken the communion. The officers and sailors had followed his example. Palos was full of weeping men and women, for there was scarcely a household that did not have some relative on the squadron that sailed out into the unknown sea. At last, committing themselves to the special care of Heaven, with tears and forebodings, in de- pression and sadness, they started out in pursuance of the orders of their sovereigns, and under the stern command of the determined Columbus.
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