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Bay, which he named Santa Gloria. At this same place, on his fourth 

 voyage, he ran his vessels ashore to prevent their sinking, and passed 

 many months there before he was rescued. 



&quot; St. Anns is considered the finest parish on the north coast,&quot; says 

 an old writer. &quot; Earth has nothing more lovely than the pastures and 

 pimento groves of St. Anns, nothing more enchanting than its hills and 

 vales, delicious in verdure and redolent with the fragrance of spices. 

 Embellished with wood and water from the deep forests whence the 

 streams descend to the ocean in beautiful falls, the blue haze of the air 

 blends and harmonizes all into beauty.&quot; 



Dry Harbor, called by the first discoverers Puerto Buenos, lies to 

 the west of St. Anns, and was visited by Columbus. Near this harbor 

 is a cave of great length, with two long galleries hung with stalactites 

 of much beauty. It was at the end of his fourth and last voyage that 

 Columbus, driven thither by a storm, entered the port of Puerto 

 Bueno, but finding no water here, stood eastward to the present harbor 

 of St. Anns. 



There was a full series of pictures in the collection representing the 

 places visited by Columbus on his third voyage, when, it will be remem 

 bered, he was taken back to Spain in chains. On the fourth voyage, 

 in 150-J, Columbus coasted along the north shore of Central America, 

 where his first lauding place was at Carxinas Point, near the town of 

 Truxillo, Honduras. 



Had he gone farther westward he might have anticipated Cortez in 

 the conquest of Mexico, but he was not looking for new lands. He 

 sought a western passage around the world, and, turning eastward, 

 groped along the coast seeking the channel he felt should be there, cruis 

 ing into each river and following the shore lines of each gulf and bay. 

 Exposure and disappointment had shattered the constitution of the-once 

 hardy seaman, and his strength was fast failing. His old enemy the 

 gout had attacked him again, and the miasmatic coasts had filled him 

 with fever. There was little left of him but his will. He had a bunk 

 built in the bow of his little vessel where he could rest his weary bones 

 and still guide the course of his fleet. And thus he explored the whole 

 coast of the isthmus from Yucatan to Colombia, finding an unbroken 

 line of continent, in defiance of all his theories, in contradiction to all 

 his reasoning, and an impassable barrier to the ambition he had cher 

 ished for thirty years. 



On the coast of Honduras Columbus found evidences of a higher civ 

 ilization than had appeared among the natives of the islands he had 

 previously visited. The Indians were bdtter looking, more intelligent, 

 and more warlike than any he had yet seen. While the natives of the 

 islands stood in awe of the white men and showed a gentleness of 

 demeanor, those of Honduras offered resistance at once, and greeted the 

 voyagers with a shower of arrows from their crossbows. They wore 

 garments of cotton, they had copper knives and hatchets, pottery of 



