Our country in story . and, while itssplendid colors unfurled to the breezes for the first timeon that distant shore, he solemnly offered the new landto the Holy Trinity and took possession of it for Ferdi-nand and Isabella. A large cross was also erected, andthe island named San Salvador, or Holy Savior. Next the Admiral called upon his sailors to promisehim submission as the representative of the King andQueen of Spain. This they willingly did, for, fancyingthat princely wealth and horrors would now come to themthrough their great leader, they most eagerly wished to A PATHWAY ACROSS THE ATLA
Our country in story . and, while itssplendid colors unfurled to the breezes for the first timeon that distant shore, he solemnly offered the new landto the Holy Trinity and took possession of it for Ferdi-nand and Isabella. A large cross was also erected, andthe island named San Salvador, or Holy Savior. Next the Admiral called upon his sailors to promisehim submission as the representative of the King andQueen of Spain. This they willingly did, for, fancyingthat princely wealth and horrors would now come to themthrough their great leader, they most eagerly wished to A PATHWAY ACROSS THE ATLANTIC 39 please him. Wild with joy, they pressed around him,some embracing him, others throwing themselves upontheir knees before him, kissing his hands and his clothes,and begging pardon and favors from him. Meanwhile a multitude of copper-colored, half-clad men,women, and children had been looking on with timidwonderment from behind trees and bushes. They thoughtthat the three ships were huge, white-winged birds which. LANDING OF CMDLUMBUS had brought the newcomers down from heaven. By andby they approached shyly and touched and felt of thestrangers to make sure that they were real. Then theyfreely offered balls of cotton yarn, tame parrots, and goldornaments to the Spaniards in return for glass beads,small bells, and other shiny trinkets. Columbus noted with joy that these strange people, sounlike any he had ever seen, were a gentle race who wouldreadily be won over to Christianity. Thinking that hehad reached India, he called them Indians. But had Columbus really reached India and landed on 40 OUR COUNTRY IN STORY an island off the eastern coast of Asia? Surely thesedusky people were not clad in Indias richly-dyed silks,or adorned with Indias costly rubies and pearls. Andthough the air was full of pleasant odors, no fragrantspices grew on the trees and bushes, Columbus wassomewhat puzzled, but believed, nevertheless, that he wasin the ocean which the two Franciscans had said
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