History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . the front sailof the Santa Maria. On the stern ofthe vessel a portrait of the Virginand the haloed child Jesus revealed tothe New World the professed holinessof Columbus mission. This was thefashion of the southern European na-tions. That great Spanish Armadasunk by the English and Dutch can-noneers or wrecked at the Orkneys car-ried an immense, varied and resplen-dent picture gallery on its sails and onthe stern of the galleons. To cross theSargossa Sea, under stress of tempest-driven billows and
History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . the front sailof the Santa Maria. On the stern ofthe vessel a portrait of the Virginand the haloed child Jesus revealed tothe New World the professed holinessof Columbus mission. This was thefashion of the southern European na-tions. That great Spanish Armadasunk by the English and Dutch can-noneers or wrecked at the Orkneys car-ried an immense, varied and resplen-dent picture gallery on its sails and onthe stern of the galleons. To cross theSargossa Sea, under stress of tempest-driven billows and a blackening sky,Courtesy of appeared to the superstitious minds ofCOLUMBUS, THE MAN WHO thc sailors as if forcing the very gates MADE THE FIRST PRO f U 11NOUNCED MOVE WEST- ^^ -Tieil. w^^°- Columbus saw the smoking peaks of Canarys Teneriffe fade in mist, before he entered fully intothe fabled Sea of Darkness. Each days sail westward, to theminds of many of the crew, brought them nearer the Falling-of¥-Place, which would make, they feared, an abrupt finish tolifes 328 HISTORY OF THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS
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