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COLUMBUS, CHRISTOPHER. 



daic scholars as interpreters to the Oriental island which the Indians had described to him 



prince whom he imagined to be described as as full of gold. While sailing on one of the 



their chief by the simple Indians, and they re- rivers, he wrote to their majesties: "The ameni- 



turned disgusted from the hut of a naked sav- ty of this river, and the clearness of the water, 



CHART DRAWN IN 1500 BY JUAN DE LA CASA, COLUMBUS's PILOT. 



age. In November, while coasting along Cuba, through which the sand at the 'bottom may be 



which to the day of his death he believed to be seen ; the multitude of palm trees of various 



the mainland of Asia, he was deserted by Pinzon, forms, the highest and most beautiful that I 



who in the night steered the "Pinta" toward an have met with, and an infinity of other great 





