The story of Columbus . A71 Indian child is found in a hut. THE SECOND VOYAGE. 115 reluctant to go. The boats had no sooner put themashore and pushed off again than their Indian mastersrushed out and tore the ornaments off of them. Thenext day, when some men were ashore getting w^ater,these women came and begged to be taken back, so thesailors took pity on them and took them to the Indian women told Columbus that most of the menof the place had gone off in their canoes to make cap-tives on some of the other MAP OF ^?j^>^ COLUMBUS SECOND VOYAGE. ^^ ^ 0?^CiVnanqQlaiitre IS
The story of Columbus . A71 Indian child is found in a hut. THE SECOND VOYAGE. 115 reluctant to go. The boats had no sooner put themashore and pushed off again than their Indian mastersrushed out and tore the ornaments off of them. Thenext day, when some men were ashore getting w^ater,these women came and begged to be taken back, so thesailors took pity on them and took them to the Indian women told Columbus that most of the menof the place had gone off in their canoes to make cap-tives on some of the other MAP OF ^?j^>^ COLUMBUS SECOND VOYAGE. ^^ ^ 0?^CiVnanqQlaiitre IS . xJlDominicft ? 5 116 THE STORY OF COLUMBUS. CHAPTER XX. ADVENTURES AMONG THE CARIBBEE One of the Spanish captains with eight men hadgone ashore on the island of Guadahipe (or, as the pres-ent French possessors call it, Guadaloupe), without per-mission from the admiral, and did not return. Colum-bns was in haste to sail for Hispaniola. Parties wentashore and scrambled about in the thick woods, firingan arquebuse from time to time, but they found nosign of the lost Spaniards. There was nothing to dobut to wait another day. So Columbus ordered thatthe time should be used in getting in water and wood,and washing clothes. While the linen of fifteen hundred men flutteredin the breeze, Alonzo de Ojeda, a bold fellow, withsome forty men, beat up the woods in search of thelost Spaniards, blowing trumpets and discharging returned without finding them, but said that theyhad discovered such valuable
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