Good stories for great birthdays, arranged for story-telling and reading aloud and for the children's own reading (1922)
Olcott, Frances Jenkins · Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin company · leaf 53
es were worth more than gold andjewels of which they had plenty. Then Columbus, hoisting sail, ran farther alongthe coast piu-chasing pearls until he had half abushel or so of the lustrous sea-jewels, some ofthem of very large size. He named a great gulf, the Gulf of Pearls. Hediscovered other… … COLUMBUS EXAMINES THE PEARLS THE FATAL PEARLS 19 The Curse of the PearlsThose fatal sea-jewels had already begun theirevil work. While Columbus was tarrying to collect them,a rebellion fomented by bad men who had takenadvantage of his absence, had broken out in theIsland of Santo Domingo. When…
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