. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. geog-raphy, astronomy,and navigation,learned to read andspeak in Latin, andmade some head-way in drawing anddesign. His earlyexperiences in sea-faring life werechiefly on the Med-iterranean, and ex-tremely hazardousand exciting. He was a few years in Portugal, and became familiar withthe schemes of that country to circumnavigate Africa. But he could notconvince the dull and the doubtful that it was safe to cross the furiouscurrents of the ocean, where there was no opposite shore ! He marriedthe daughter of a distinguished navigator, la
. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. geog-raphy, astronomy,and navigation,learned to read andspeak in Latin, andmade some head-way in drawing anddesign. His earlyexperiences in sea-faring life werechiefly on the Med-iterranean, and ex-tremely hazardousand exciting. He was a few years in Portugal, and became familiar withthe schemes of that country to circumnavigate Africa. But he could notconvince the dull and the doubtful that it was safe to cross the furiouscurrents of the ocean, where there was no opposite shore ! He marriedthe daughter of a distinguished navigator, lately deceased, to whose papershe had access, and when on shore supported his family by making mapsand charts. He resided for a time at the newly discovered island of PortoSanto, where his wife had property left her by her former husband, thegovernor of that island. His wifes sister was the wife of Pedro Correo, anavigator of note, who had also been governor of the island. He was sur-rounded by the stir and bustle of discovery, and heard all the fantastic. SHIP OF THE COLUMBUS PERIOD. A GROUP OF COLUMBUS PORTRAITS 253
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