. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . AN EARLY COMPASS COLUMBUS SHOWS THE WAY 9 who shouted Land! should receive the reward unless land was[liscovered within three days after the time when it had beenannounced. It seems only right that the great discovery should have beenmade by the admiral himself, and so it was, for one evening as he Land at laststood gazing into the west, he was sure that he saw a light that. COLUMBUSS ROUTE(From Winsors Columbus) noved up and down as if some one was carrying a torch in hisiiand. Early the next morning, October 12, 1492, the la
. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . AN EARLY COMPASS COLUMBUS SHOWS THE WAY 9 who shouted Land! should receive the reward unless land was[liscovered within three days after the time when it had beenannounced. It seems only right that the great discovery should have beenmade by the admiral himself, and so it was, for one evening as he Land at laststood gazing into the west, he was sure that he saw a light that. COLUMBUSS ROUTE(From Winsors Columbus) noved up and down as if some one was carrying a torch in hisiiand. Early the next morning, October 12, 1492, the land wasn full view. Columbus put on his rich scarlet robes, took thefoyal banner in his hand, and was rowed to the shore. What ajhore it was! The water was clear as crystal, the sand wasiazzlingly white, there were strange trees and fruits, unknownflowers, birds of most brilliant plumage, and, strangest of all,?reat numbers of copper-colored natives, who at first hid behind3rees, but soon gathered around the Spaniards, gazing with rev-erent curiosity upon their white skins, their steel armor, their^•Httering weapons, and especially upon the admiral in his scarletIress. The Spaniards knelt down and kissed the ground. They rosemd chanted the Te Deum. Then Columbus unfurled his banner Landing ofmd formally claimed the land for Spain. He named the island ColumbusSan Salvador, or Holy Saviour. It was one of the Bahamas, noDne knows which
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