The Life of Columbus
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The Life of Christopher Columbus, by Edward Everett Hale, is drawn from his own letters and journals and other documents of his time. The preface says the book contains a life of Columbus, written with the hope of interesting all classes of readers. The preface calls the great book of our countryman, Washington Irving, a noble model of diligent work given to a very difficult subject.
The text says Columbus occupied himself as a draftsman, illustrating books, making terrestrial globes, drawing charts for sale, and collecting, where he could, the material for such study. As the text tells it with the qualifier it is said, Columbus commanded one of the vessels of his relative Colon el Mozo and flung himself into the sea, seized a floating oar, and thus gained the shore. The text says a relation of the cacique and three others ventured to the boat, and that these men frankly admitted that the christians were all dead.
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- Edward Everett Hale
- Pages
- 114
- Language
- English
- Genre
- History
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