Piercy, Willis Duff · New York, Charles E. Merrill company · leaf 103
sail in January, 1493, on thereturn trip. A terrific storm was encountered. Colum-bus, fearing that his ships might sink, and wishing topreserve a record of what he had done, wrote an ac-count of the voyage on a piece of parchment and placedit in a cask, which he threw overboard in the hope thatit… … Columbus on the Deck of the Santa Maria.From the painting by vonPiloty. 102 IXVEXTIONS AND DISCOVERIES the booming of cannons, and the ringing of bells.Hastening to Barcelona, where the king and queenwere then holchng court, he was received with atriumphal procession. Seated next to the throne,…
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