. Bill Nye's history of the United States. 22 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. like the succeeding pages, will stand for centuriesunshaken by the bombardment of the critic, while succeeding years shall try them with frost andthaw, and the tide of time dash high againsttheir massive front, only to recede, quelled anddefeated.* * The author acknowledges especially the courtesy of San DiegoColon Columbus, a son of the great navigator, whose book ** Histori-adores Primitivos was so generously loaned the author by relatives ofyoung Columbus. I have refrained from announcing in the foregoing chapter th
. Bill Nye's history of the United States. 22 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. like the succeeding pages, will stand for centuriesunshaken by the bombardment of the critic, while succeeding years shall try them with frost andthaw, and the tide of time dash high againsttheir massive front, only to recede, quelled anddefeated.* * The author acknowledges especially the courtesy of San DiegoColon Columbus, a son of the great navigator, whose book ** Histori-adores Primitivos was so generously loaned the author by relatives ofyoung Columbus. I have refrained from announcing in the foregoing chapter the deathof Columbus, which occurred May 20, 1506, at Valladolid, the funeraltaking place from his late residence, because I dislike to give needlesspain. B. CHAPTER II. OTHER DISCOVERIES WET AND DRY. AMERICA had many other discoverers be-sides Columbus, but he seems to havemade more satisfactory arrangements withthe historians than any of the others. He hadgenius, and was also a married man. He was agood after-dinner speaker, and was first to use 23 24 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. the egg trick, which so many after-dinner speak-ers have since wished they had thought of beforeChris did. In falsifying the log-book in order to make hissailors believe that they had not sailed so far asthey had, Columbus did a wrong act, unworthy ofhis high notions regarding the pious discovery ofthis land. The artist has shown here not onlyone of the most faithful portraits of Columbusand his crooked log-book, but the punishmentwhich he should have received. The man on the left is Columbus ; Historyis concealed just around the corner in a loosewrapper. Spain at this time regarded the new land asa vast jewelry store in charge of simple childrenof the forest w
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