Story of ColumbusEducational Publishing Company, 1892 - 180 páginas |
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answered Columbus Antonio appeared Asia Azores BAY OF BISCAY beautiful birds boat Bobadilla brave by-and-by called Canaries Canary Islands canoe Caonabo captain Castile chief Christopher Columbus coast colored beads Columbus set Columbus's command convent Court crew cried cruising Cuba Diego doubt fear Ferdinand Ferdinand and Isabella fleet friends gave Genoa Genoese gold governor grew harbor heard Hispaniola Homeward we go honor hope Indian Isabella island journey king and queen King of Portugal listened lost Majesties Martin Alonzo Martin Pinzon monk morning natives night Niña notary ocean Ojeda once Palos passed pilot Pinta plans port Portugal Portuguese Queen of Castile reached return to Spain rich royal sailed sailors San Salvador Santa Maria seemed Señor sent Seville ship shore signs of land sovereigns Spaniards Spanish story sure tell thought told village voyage waters wealth wind wonderful wool-comber
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Página 122 - BEHIND him lay the gray Azores, Behind the Gates of Hercules; Before him not the ghost of shores, Before him only shoreless seas. The good mate said: "Now must we pray, For lo! the very stars are gone. Brave Admiral, speak, what shall I say?
Página 122 - Sail on! Sail on! Sail on, and on!" Then, pale and worn, he kept his deck, And peered through darkness. Ah, that night Of all dark nights! And then a speck— A light! A light! A light! A light! It grew, a starlight flag unfurled! It grew to be Time's burst of dawn. He gained a world; he gave that world Its grandest lesson: '
Página 173 - Andes' cloud-wrapped brow, The Indian hunter's bow, Bold streams untamed by helm or prow, And rocks of gold and diamonds, thou To thankless Spain shalt show. Courage, World-finder! Thou hast need! In Fate's unfolding scroll, Dark woes and ingrate wrongs I read, That rack the noble soul. On! on! Creation's secrets probe, Then drink thy cup of scorn, And wrapped in fallen Caesar's robe, Sleep like that master of the globe, All glorious, — yet forlorn.
Página 57 - Arragon, of the two Sicilies, of Jerusalem, of Navarre, of Granada, of Toledo, of Valencia, of Galicia, of...
Página 57 - Elizabeth, by the grace of God, King and Queen of Castile, of Leon, of Aragon...
Página 13 - I know not when this hope enthralled me first, But from my boyhood up I loved to hear The tall pine forests of the Apennine Murmur their hoary legends of the sea; Which hearing, I in vision clear beheld The sudden dark of tropic night shut down O'er the huge whisper of great watery wastes.
Página 80 - he said, going up to them and speaking with sternness ; " our course lies west and ever west, and thither shall we sail. See you to it that we leave it not again without my orders. I care for no more of this wandering about, and on your shoulders shall fall the penalty if I am not heeded now.
Página 125 - Columbus thought little of this then, as she was the swiftest sailer of the fleet and might be standing on with the intention of overtaking the flagship later. As the night closed in, however, he saw the Pinta away off on the horizon, still steering due east with all sails set, and every moment increasing the distance between herself and the two other vessels. Loath to believe that so true a sailor and so brave a man as her captain was, would be guilty of so rank an act of disobedience, Columbus...
Página 94 - ... land. Before long the Pinta's men saw plainly drifting past, almost within their reach, a fresh canestalk and a stick of wood ; and shortly after drew on board, in quick succession, another stalk, a bunch of weeds which could Only have grown on dry land, and a bit of plank. This latter, with a second piece of wood which seemed to have been cut with some tool, satisfied the most timid that they were indeed approaching the shores of an inhabited country.
Página 120 - ... men of the town taking them by the arm as a mark of honor. When all the men were gathered within the house, the women were forbidden to enter; and the Spaniards were seated on stools in the midst of the apartment. One after another the savages then pressed forward, kissing the white men's hands and feet, and touching them to see what manner of strange creatures they might be.