Identifier: americafromdisco00boyd (find matches)
Title: America, from discovery in 1942 to the present time
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Boyd, James P(enny) (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Mansfield, Ohio, Estill & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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t he might bear the news to Spain,Bartholomew confirmed the story. Diaz and his queen becamevery important personages. Columbus, imagining himself to bein the far East, thought he had struck upon the ancient Ophirwhence King Solomon drew his treasures of gold for the temple. Columbus sailed for Spain in March, 1496, taking along 225sick and discontented colonists and thirty Indians, among whomwas a captured chief, Caonabo, whom he promised to return.After a most tedious voyage on short rations, Columbus landedhis starved, sick and bilious-looking crew in Spain. Many ofthe Indians had died, among them Caonabo. When the peopleof Spain saw the poverty-stricken and sallow, crowd, theydeclared that all the gold they had brought with them was intheir faces. COLUMBUS AT COURT.—Co\nmh\x^ was invited to Courtby the King and Queen. Knowing that the impression was abroadthat there were no riches in the West Indies, that naked savages,imaginary spices, and undug gold, did not compensate for the
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COLUMBUS STRIKES THE JEW. 49 50 COLUMBUS AND THE^NEW WORLD. expenses of his expeditions, and that his abihty to colonize andgovern wisely was in question, he travelled towards the Courtwith his Indians decorated with feathers, trinkets, and chains ofgold, and with a full display of the ornaments, images, fabricsand woods he had gathered abroad. He was well received atCourt, exposed his curiosities with great effect, told very plaus-ibly how he had coasted along Asia (Cuba), and woundup with the request for eight more ships to continue hisdiscoveries. The ships were promised, but the money for themwas not immediately forthcoming. Columbus had a long wait,and was chagrined to find that other discoverers were actuallyreceiving tlie favor he asked, and were sent off on expeditionscalculated to rob him of his hard-earned honors. After waitingpatiently for two years, during which time the Queen remainedhis pronounced friend, six ships were equipped and placed athis disposal. All the old tit

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