liim in courage, in cruelty or in crime. Columbus, by simply 

 skirting the shores and landing ui)on one of the summer isles, 

 secured for the whole group an immortality of fame. Black 

 Beard infected them with an infamy as enduring as the memory 

 of his crimes. The foot-fall of one hallowed the coralline rocks, 

 the presence of the other so polluted the air as to permanently 

 give to it the shadowy gloom of a lurking fear. The most charm- 

 insf flower bed loses much of its frao^rance and beauty as soon as 

 it is known that a serpent has nestled there. 



Death cannot wholly destroy men who are good and great. 

 They are not dead when they die. They enter upon that journey 

 where the travel is all one way, and yet do not wholly leave us. 

 Their suns descend behind the hills, but a zodiacal light still 

 lingers in the heavens. So when earth's moral monsters pass 

 away, shadows dark and chilly are for centuries projected into 

 the sunlight. Hence we observed, that over the bright and beau- 

 tiful waters, and along the shining shores of the emerald isles, 

 the soft air is even now impregnated with amoral poison dei'ived 

 from pirates who have been dead more than a hundred years. 



In the Old World the traveler is often so occupied with the 

 relics, monuments, history, traditions and legends of a past 

 hoary and venerable with age, that he is inclined to overlook the 

 ])resent. In the new world the dark and imponctrablo shadows 

 extend to modern times, and leave but a few centuries for the 

 historic period. But even rontcm])()raiu'()us history is not wholly 

 reliable, because of the bad habit of covering with the gay robes 

 and bright ribbons of fiction, the simplicity and nakedness of 

 I ruth. 



It was upon Friday, (a day which superstition has branded as 

 unlucky) August 3d, 1402, at eight o'clock A. m., that Columbus 

 with his three caravals, two of which were only decked fore and 

 aft, sailed from Palos upon what the world generally believed 



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