An introduction to American history, European beginnings . GREAT DISCOVERIES anxious, frightened sailors often became discouragedand mutinous, and once threatened to cast Columbusinto the sea and return to Spain; but he always suc-ceeded in subduing them, and persisted on his voyage,until at last, on the twelfth of October, in the sameyear, he sighted the longed-for land. With thanksgiv-ing and rejoicing he wentashore and took posses-sion of it in the nameof Spain, and supposingthat it and the other greenand flowery islands he dis-covered were a part ofIndia, he called the nativeswhom he found
An introduction to American history, European beginnings . GREAT DISCOVERIES anxious, frightened sailors often became discouragedand mutinous, and once threatened to cast Columbusinto the sea and return to Spain; but he always suc-ceeded in subduing them, and persisted on his voyage,until at last, on the twelfth of October, in the sameyear, he sighted the longed-for land. With thanksgiv-ing and rejoicing he wentashore and took posses-sion of it in the nameof Spain, and supposingthat it and the other greenand flowery islands he dis-covered were a part ofIndia, he called the nativeswhom he found there In-dians. We suspect theisland on which he firstlanded to have been SanSalvador, one of the Ba-hama Islands, southeast of the United States. Later hediscovered the islands of Cuba and Haiti. On his return from this voyage Columbus was re-ceived by Ferdinand and Isabella with the greatest in-terest and favor, and all that he had to tell was eagerlylistened to. Every one was impatient to hear and seethe great explorer and much was done in his Defarture of Columbus 232 INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN HISTORY Plans were immediately made for another was no trouble in raising funds and securingsailors this time, for all were anxious to take part in anadventure that they thought would bring them untoldriches. Other voyages of Columbus. Columbus made three othervoyages after his first one, exploring the coast of SouthAmerica as far as the Orinoco River, but he failed tofind any stores of gold and silver with which to enrichthe Spanish sovereigns. They lost all interest in him,therefore, and so forgot and neglected him that towardthe end of his life he wrote them this sad letter: I was twenty-eight when I came into your High-nesses service and now I have not a hair upon me thatis not gray. Such is my fate that the twenty years ofservice through which I have passed with so much toiland danger have profited me nothing, and at this veryday I do not possess a roof i
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