. Bill Nye's history of the United States. an would have said, under such cir-cumstances, that there would be no sense indiscovering a place that was not popular. Whydiscover a place when it is so far out of the way ?Why discover a country with no improvements ?Why discover a country that is so far from therailroad ? Why discover, at great expense, anentirely new country ? But Isabella did not stop to listen to thesecroaks. In the language of the Honorable Jere-miah M. Rusk, She seen her duty and she doneit. That was Isabellas style. Columbus now began to select steamer-chairsand rugs. He had
. Bill Nye's history of the United States. an would have said, under such cir-cumstances, that there would be no sense indiscovering a place that was not popular. Whydiscover a place when it is so far out of the way ?Why discover a country with no improvements ?Why discover a country that is so far from therailroad ? Why discover, at great expense, anentirely new country ? But Isabella did not stop to listen to thesecroaks. In the language of the Honorable Jere-miah M. Rusk, She seen her duty and she doneit. That was Isabellas style. Columbus now began to select steamer-chairsand rugs. He had already secured the Nina,Pinta, and Santa Maria, and on the 3d of Auoust,1492, he sailed from Palos. THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. 19 Isabella brought him a large bunch ofbeautiful flowers as he was about to sail,and Ferdinand gave him a nice yachting-cap and a spicy French novel to read onthe road. 1 He was given a com-mission as viceroy or gov-ernor of all the lands hemight disc0ver, with hunt-ing ancLgnooting privilegeso le stopped several. Columbuss steamek-chair. weeks at the Canary Islands, where he and his one hundred and twentymen rested and got fresh water. He then set outsailing due west over an unknown sea to blazethe way for liberty. Soon, however, his men began to began also to pick on Columbus and oc-cupy his steamer-chair when he wanted to use ithimself They got to making chalk-marks on thedeck and compelling him to pay a shilling beforehe could cross them. Some claimed that theywere lost and that they had been sailing aroundfor over a week in a circle, one man statine thathe recognized a spot in the sea that they hadpassed eight times already. Finally they mutinied, and started to throw thegreat navigator overboard, but he told them that 20 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. if they would wait until the next morning hewould tell them a highly amusing story that heheard just before he left Palos. Thus his life was saved, for early in the morningthe cry of Land
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