A first book in American history, with special reference to the lives and deeds of great Americans . lie there androt for want of wind to fill the sails. They were getting farther and farther away from would they find food and water to last them tillthey got home ? They thought their commander a crack-brained fool, who would go on to their destruction. Theyplanned, therefore, to throw him into the -f»v4sea, and go back. They could say that,while he was gazing at the stars, afterhis fashion, he had tumbled over. But the worst disappointments wereto come. One day the glad cry of Lan
A first book in American history, with special reference to the lives and deeds of great Americans . lie there androt for want of wind to fill the sails. They were getting farther and farther away from would they find food and water to last them tillthey got home ? They thought their commander a crack-brained fool, who would go on to their destruction. Theyplanned, therefore, to throw him into the -f»v4sea, and go back. They could say that,while he was gazing at the stars, afterhis fashion, he had tumbled over. But the worst disappointments wereto come. One day the glad cry of Land! was raised. Columbus fell onhis knees to return thanks, while themen scrambled up into the it proved to be only a cloud. Onthe 7th of October another false alarm disheartened thesailors more than ever. From the first Columbus had pointed to seaweed, andother supposed signs of land, until the men would no longerlisten to his hopeful words. Now the appearance of somesong birds, a heron, and a duck, could not comfort great enterprise was about to end in failure, after lO HOW COLUMBUS DISCOVERED AMERICA. when, on the nth of October, the sailors found a branchof a thorn-tree with berries on it. At length a carvedstick was found, and the men began to believe that theywere really near to some inhabited land. During the night which followed this discovery no oneon the ships slept. About ten oclock Columbus saw at fLM^e&im^ glimmering light appearing and disappear-ing, as though some one on shore werecarrying a torch. At two oclock asailor sighted land. The morning light of Friday, Oc-tober 12, 1492, showed the Spaniardsa beautiful little island. Columbusdressed himself in scarlet, and plajitedthe Spanish standard on the shore,throwing himself on the earth andkissing it, while the naked Indianswondered whether these men in brightarmor had flown from the skies in their winged boats orhad sailed down upon the clouds. The sailors, lately soready to cast Colum
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