The story of Columbus . dreaded chief and bring him alive to Isa-bella. Columbus gladly accepted this offer, though itwas doubtful what would be the outcome of such anadventure. 168 THE STORY OF COLUMBUS. CHAPTEE XXIX. ojedas adventure and the war that ]495. Ojeda chose ten men to go with him, and, afterarming and mounting them well, set off on his hair-brained adventure. He traveled many miles throughthe forests before he reached the home of the mountainchief. Probably his picture of the Virgin went with him and hung on more thanone tree by the way. Cao-nabo was not alarmed when


The story of Columbus . dreaded chief and bring him alive to Isa-bella. Columbus gladly accepted this offer, though itwas doubtful what would be the outcome of such anadventure. 168 THE STORY OF COLUMBUS. CHAPTEE XXIX. ojedas adventure and the war that ]495. Ojeda chose ten men to go with him, and, afterarming and mounting them well, set off on his hair-brained adventure. He traveled many miles throughthe forests before he reached the home of the mountainchief. Probably his picture of the Virgin went with him and hung on more thanone tree by the way. Cao-nabo was not alarmed whenthese eleven white men en-tered his town, for theywere too few to do him anyharm. Ojeda pretended tohave come on a friendlyerrand from Co-lumbus, to bringthe chief a val-/^ uable present. The bold Span-ish soldier soonmade himself a prime favorite among the Indians. Hecould do all kinds of feats, to their great admiration,and they already knew him to be a great warrior. Ojeda took a strange way to coax Caonabo to go to. OLD CANNON FROM THE FORTRESS OF SANTODOMINGO. ir^^^=^--w


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