A first book in American history, with special reference to the lives and deeds of great Americans . nds, feeling much like mencondemned to death. They embarked in three little ves-sels, only one of which had a deck over it. Columbus went to the Canary Islands first. Then withbitter lamentations the men took leave of the last knownland, and sailed into seas in which no ship had ever tried to cheer them with the stories he hadread in Marco Polos book, of the riches of thegreat country of China. But he also de-ceived them by keeping two separateaccounts of his sailing. In the onewh
A first book in American history, with special reference to the lives and deeds of great Americans . nds, feeling much like mencondemned to death. They embarked in three little ves-sels, only one of which had a deck over it. Columbus went to the Canary Islands first. Then withbitter lamentations the men took leave of the last knownland, and sailed into seas in which no ship had ever tried to cheer them with the stories he hadread in Marco Polos book, of the riches of thegreat country of China. But he also de-ceived them by keeping two separateaccounts of his sailing. In the onewhich he showed to his companionshe made the distance from Spain muchless than it really was. But they were greatly alarmed tofind that, as they went west, the needleof the compass did not point directly toThis change, though well known now,was probably as surprising to Columbus as to his men,but he did his best to keep up their courage. The weather was fine, and the winds blew always fromthe east. This alarmed the sailors more than ever, for theywere sure they would get no wind to come back COLUMBUS READING POLOS BOOK. the north star. HOW COLUMBUS DISCOVERED AMERICA. One day the wind came around to the southwest, wliichwas a great encouragement. But presently the ships struck great masses of seaweed,and all was grumbling and lamentation again. The fright-ened sailors remembered old stories of a frozen ocean, andimagined that this must be the very place. When the windfell to a calm, they thought the ships might lie there androt for want of wind to fill the sails. They were getting farther and farther away from would they find food and water to last them tillthey got home ? They thought their commander a crack-brained fool, who would go on to their destruction. Theyplanned, therefore, to throw him into the -f»v4sea, and go back. They could say that,while he was gazing at the stars, afterhis fashion, he had tumbled over. But the worst disappointments wereto com
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