The True Story of Christopher Columbus, Called the Great Admiral
The True Story of Christopher Columbus, Called the Great Admiral
Brooks Elbridge Streeter
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But Columbus would not. And as they sailed away from Gomera somesailors told them that the king of Portugal was angry with Columbusbecause he had got his ships from the king and queen of Spain, and thathe had sent out some of his war-ships to worry or capture Columbus. But these, too, Columbus escaped, although not before his crews hadgrown terribly nervous for fear of capture. At last they got away fromthe Canaries, and on Sunday, the ninth of September, 1492, with a freshbreeze filling their ...sails, the three caravels sailed away into theWest. And as the shores of Ferro, the very last of the Canary Islands, faded out of sight, the sailors burst into sighs and murmurings andtears, saying that now indeed they were sailing off--off--off--upon theawful Sea of Darkness and would never see land any more. When Columbus thought that he was sailing too slowly--he had now beenaway from Palos a month and was only about a hundred miles out atsea--and when he saw what babies his sailors were, he did something thatwas not just right (for it is never right to do anything that is nottrue) but which he felt he really must do.
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