The history of America, from its discovery by Columbus to the conclusion of the late war : with an appendix, containing an account of the rise and progress of the present unhappy contest between Great Britain and her colonies . ation, and infpir-ing them widi juft notions of the enterprife in which they were engaged, as wellSept. -. as in refitting his fliips and taking in frefli provifions. On putting again to fea,he held his courfe due weft, leaving at once the ufual tra61: of navigation,and launching boldly into an ocean with whole extreme fhores he was un-acquainted, and where he liad no c
The history of America, from its discovery by Columbus to the conclusion of the late war : with an appendix, containing an account of the rise and progress of the present unhappy contest between Great Britain and her colonies . ation, and infpir-ing them widi juft notions of the enterprife in which they were engaged, as wellSept. -. as in refitting his fliips and taking in frefli provifions. On putting again to fea,he held his courfe due weft, leaving at once the ufual tra61: of navigation,and launching boldly into an ocean with whole extreme fhores he was un-acquainted, and where he liad no chart to guide him, in queft of countries whichperhaps exifted only m his own imagination. Nor v/ere thefe the only difficulties Columbus had to ftruggle with, or the onlydangers he was deftined to encounter. No fooner had he loft fight of land thanmany of his failors, already dejcfted and difmayed, beat their breafts and fhcdtears, notwithftanding all his endeavours to animate them. 1 hey began to con-fider his enterprife as the defperate projed of a rafli adventurer, who wouldfoon hurry them to deftrudion. Happily, however, Columbus poflefTcd that * Herrea, dec. I. lib. i. Life of Columbus, c. 15. f Ut fupra. undaunted. THEHISTORYOFAMERICA. 19 undaunted courage and prelence of mind, which triumphs amid the great- CHAP. If. eft perils, and never fails to infpire confidence. He appeared always cool ^ v~-— ^ and unconcerned, comforted his crew with alTurances of fuccefs, and the pro-fpedl of vaft wealth in thofe oppulent regions whither he was conducting them :he regulated every thing by his ible authority j he fuperintended the execution ofevery order-, and allowing himfelf only a few hours for fleep, he was at all othertimes upon deck, where his uncommon fkill in his profeffion made him be re-garded as a fuperior being *. As Columbus was fenfible that the length of the voyage muft. alarm faiiorsaccuftomed to fhort excurfions, he endeavoured to conceal from them theprogr
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