Discovery of America, 12th of May,1492. Columbus erects the Cross and baptizes the Isle of Guanahami, now Cat Island,one of the Bahamas, by the Christian name of St. Salvador. From an engraving on copper by Theodor de Bry in the collection Grands Voyages printed 1590

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