. Sea and sail; or, Marvelous adventures on the ocean. Being interesting, instructive and graphic accounts of the most popular voyages on record, remarkable shipwrecks, hair-breadth escapes, naval adventures, the whale fishery, etc., etc. ... rently well inhabited. The ships im-mediately came to anchor. The admiral went ashore ui his boat,well-armed, and bearing the royal standard. After formallytaking possession of the island, he named it San Salvador. Itis now called Cat Island, and belongs to the group of the Baha-mas. He also dv-icovered Cuba, Hispaniola, and several other small IK
. Sea and sail; or, Marvelous adventures on the ocean. Being interesting, instructive and graphic accounts of the most popular voyages on record, remarkable shipwrecks, hair-breadth escapes, naval adventures, the whale fishery, etc., etc. ... rently well inhabited. The ships im-mediately came to anchor. The admiral went ashore ui his boat,well-armed, and bearing the royal standard. After formallytaking possession of the island, he named it San Salvador. Itis now called Cat Island, and belongs to the group of the Baha-mas. He also dv-icovered Cuba, Hispaniola, and several other small IK islaiwls, and having left a colony in a fort at Hispaniola relurired»o Spain in March, 14!)3. In September following, he set outon his second voyage, and sailed hy the Islands to His-paniola; in a third voyage undertaken m 1498, he discovered thecontinent of America, but in consequence of some envious char-ces made against him, was sent in fetters to Europe. He wasinstantly liberated on his arrival, but so deeply did the injury sinkinto his mind, that he always carried about him the chains he hadworn, and ordered that they should be buried with him. He sailedfrom Cadiz, in May, 1502, on his fourth voyage. On arriving off. St. Domingo he found eighteen loaded ships preparing to departfor Europe. As from certain tokens he discerned the approachof a hurricane, he requested permission to enter the harbour, andat the same time warned the fleet not to sail. Both his requestand warning were disregarded. The hurricane came on. Byproper precautons he escaped its fury; hut it fell with such de-Btructive violence on the fleet, that only two or three ships weregavcd, :ind the rest perished with all their wealth, Columbus proceeded on his voyage and traced all the coastabout the isthmus of Darien. Sailing homewards he was wreck-ed on the island of Jamaica. Here he underwent great distressfrom the mutiny and desertion of his men, and the suspicions of thenatives, who withheld t
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