Tag: columbus
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More About Captain John Smith
More About Captain John Smith The two best things about Captain John Smith were that he was never idle and he never gave up. He was a good man to have in a colony, for he was always trying to find out something new or to accomplish some great thing. He had not found a…
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Columbus After the Discovery of America
Columbus After the Discovery of America Having got one of his vessels ashore on the coast of Haiti, which he called Hispaniola [his-pan-ee-o’-lah], Columbus built a fort of the timber from the wrecked vessel and left here a little colony. But now he began to think of carrying home the good news of his great…
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How Columbus Discovered America
About two hundred years before Columbus sailed, there arrived in the city of Venice one day three travelers, coarsely dressed in Chinese fashion. They said that they were three gentlemen named Polo, who had left Venice many years before. They had almost forgotten how to speak Italian, and at first their own relatives thought them…
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The Early Life of Columbus
Note: Some punctuation and terminology updated in keeping with modern times. More than four hundred years ago there lived in the old city of Genoa, in Italy, a workingman who had four sons. One of these was Christopher Columbus, who was born, probably about the year 1446, in that part of the city occupied by…
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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 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…
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Chistopher Columbus: CHAPTER 4: HOW THE ADMIRAL SAILED AWAY.
The agreement made between Columbus and the king and queen of Spain was signed on the seventeenth of April, 1492. But it was four months before he was quite ready to sail away. He selected the town of Palos as the place to sail from, because there, as you know, Captain Pinzon lived; there, too,…
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THE TRUE STORY OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS CALLED THE GREAT ADMIRAL
Elbridge S. Brooks’ “The True Story of Christopher Columbus” depicts Columbus’s ambition, challenges, and achievements, inspiring young readers through his exploration and perseverance.
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CHAPTER III. HOW COLUMBUS GAINED A QUEEN FOR HIS FRIEND.
When you wish very much to do a certain thing it is dreadfully hard to be patient; it is harder still to have to wait. Columbus had to do both. The wars against the Moors were of much greater interest to the king and queen of Spain than was the finding of a new and…
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CHAPTER II. WHAT PEOPLE THOUGHT OF THE IDEA.
I do not wish you to think that Columbus was the first man to say that the earth was round, or the first to sail to the West over the Atlantic Ocean. He was not. Other men had said that they believed the earth was round; other men had sailed out into the Atlantic Ocean.…