Category: THE TRUE STORY OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS CALLED THE GREAT ADMIRAL
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Engaging Children’s Books, Fun Facts and Delicious Recipes
This resource collection for children promotes learning through engaging books, fun facts, and simple recipes that inspire curiosity and imagination.
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CHAPTER XIV. HOW THE STORY TURNS OUT
CHAPTER XIV. HOW THE STORY TURNS OUT Whenever you start to read a story that you hope will be interesting, you always wonder, do you not, how it is going to turn out? Your favorite fairy tale or wonder story that began with “once upon a time,” ends, does it not, “so the prince married…
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CHAPTER XIII. THE END OF THE STORY
CHAPTER XIII. THE END OF THE STORY Any one who is sick, as some of you may know, is apt to be anxious and fretful and full of fears as to how he is going to get along, or who will look out for his family. Very often there is no need for this feeling;…
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CHAPTER XII. HOW THE ADMIRAL PLAYED ROBINSON CRUSOE
CHAPTER XII. HOW THE ADMIRAL PLAYED ROBINSON CRUSOE While the terrible storm that wrecked the great gold fleet of the governor was raging so furiously, Columbus with his four ships was lying as near shore as he dared in a little bay farther down the coast of Hayti. Here he escaped the full fury of…
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CHAPTER XI. HOW THE ADMIRAL CAME AND WENT AGAIN
CHAPTER XI. HOW THE ADMIRAL CAME AND WENT AGAIN I suppose you think Bobadilla was a very cruel man. He was. But in his time people were apt to be cruel to one another whenever they had the power in their own hands. The days in which Columbus lived were not like these in which…
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CHAPTER X. FROM PARADISE TO PRISON
CHAPTER X. FROM PARADISE TO PRISON If you know a boy or a girl whose mind is set on any one thing, you will find that they are always talking about that thing. Is not this so? They have what people call a “hobby” (which is a kind of a horse, you know), and they…
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CHAPTER IX. HOW THE TROUBLES OF THE ADMIRAL BEGAN
CHAPTER IX. HOW THE TROUBLES OF THE ADMIRAL BEGAN Both the farmers and the gold hunters had a hard time of it in the land they had come to so hopefully. The farmers did not like to farm when they thought they could do so much better at gold hunting; the gold hunters found that…
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CHAPTER VIII. TRYING IT AGAIN
CHAPTER VIII. TRYING IT AGAIN Do you not think Columbus must have felt very fine as he sailed out of Cadiz Harbor on his second voyage to the West? It was just about a year before, you know, that his feeble fleet of three little ships sailed from Palos port. His hundred sailors hated to…
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CHAPTER VII. HOW A BOY BROUGHT THE ADMIRAL TO GRIEF.
Columbus kept sailing on from one island to another. Each new island he found would, he hoped, bring him nearer to Cathay and to the marble temples and golden palaces and splendid cities he was looking for. But the temples and palaces and cities did not appear. When the Admiral came to the coast of…
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CHAPTER 6: WHAT COLUMBUS DISCOVERED
A little over three hundred years ago there was a Pope of Rome whose name was Gregory XIII. He was greatly interested in learning and science, and when the scholars and wise men of his day showed him that a mistake in reckoning time had long before been made he set about to make it…