The story of Columbus . he courts of Europe and discussed bylearned men. The letter Columbus had sent to Ferdi-nand and Isabella from his ship, was printed in differ-ent places. In the court of Henry YII, of England,men said that it w^as a thing more divine thanhuman. Everybody believed, as Columbus did, that he hadfound a way to the most eastern parts of Asia, and ittook a long time to get this notion out of mens heads. REJOICINGS AT COURT. 107 This belief caused the new islands to be known as theIndies, and after a while as the West Indies, while thename of the Antilles came from the traditi
The story of Columbus . he courts of Europe and discussed bylearned men. The letter Columbus had sent to Ferdi-nand and Isabella from his ship, was printed in differ-ent places. In the court of Henry YII, of England,men said that it w^as a thing more divine thanhuman. Everybody believed, as Columbus did, that he hadfound a way to the most eastern parts of Asia, and ittook a long time to get this notion out of mens heads. REJOICINGS AT COURT. 107 This belief caused the new islands to be known as theIndies, and after a while as the West Indies, while thename of the Antilles came from the tradition of an isl-and called Antilla in the Atlantic Ocean. It was alsobecause of the belief that India had been found thatnatives of the Kew World were called Indians. The Pope was supposed to have a right to grantheathen lands to Christian kings, so Ferdinand and Isa-bella hastened to send him the news of the great dis-covery, and ask him to give them a right to the landswhich Columbus had found for them. He did this, and,. CADIZ, FROM THE MOLE. as the Portuguese were jealous that the Spanish discov-eries might interfere with theirs, the Pope establishedan imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean, from north to 108 THE STORY OF COLUMBUS. south, giving Spain all the land on the west of this line,and Portugal all the land found on the east. Great haste was made to send out a second fleet tothe new world to make sure of the discoveries. JuanRodriguez de Fonseca, archdeacon of Seville and after-
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