History and government of the United States, for evening schools . nancial assistance, he sailed westward across the AtlanticOcean until he reached an island off thecoast of this New World. ^ 18. Discovery of the New World.—Thisdiscovery of America was the result ofmany years of persistent endeavor on thepart of Columbus to organize an expedi-tion, for he believed the stories of theexistence of strange lands far to thewest of Spain and east of India, anddreamed that he might find those lands,bring their inhabitants to a knowledgeof the Christian religion, and secure vastwealth for himself as t
History and government of the United States, for evening schools . nancial assistance, he sailed westward across the AtlanticOcean until he reached an island off thecoast of this New World. ^ 18. Discovery of the New World.—Thisdiscovery of America was the result ofmany years of persistent endeavor on thepart of Columbus to organize an expedi-tion, for he believed the stories of theexistence of strange lands far to thewest of Spain and east of India, anddreamed that he might find those lands,bring their inhabitants to a knowledgeof the Christian religion, and secure vastwealth for himself as their ruler. Tlie Start. — Columbus believed theearth to be round, — not flat, as most people then thought it tobe, — and he hoped that those far-away lands, of which tradi-tion had told him, might prove to be the borders of Cathay,then the region of romance and wealth in the imaginationsof all men. He hoped to set forth on his great voyage of iThis was probably that island in the Bahamas which is now calledWatling Island. (See Bahamas, on map, p. 19.) 18. Columbuss toHiP
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