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HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

THE father of Christopher Columbus was a poor wool-comber in Genoa, Italy. Genoa is a town on the seashore.

Christopher often made voyages on ships. From living on the sea in that way he gathered many ideas about the different lands.

There was a great deal of valuable trading between the European countries and the East Indies. Caravans of camels brought goods from the Persian Gulf or the Red and Caspian seas. Traders then took the goods and carried them partly by land and partly by water to Europe. The only way to reach the Indies by water was by sailing around Africa, and this was a very long voyage. Columbus thought that he could find a shorter way to get to the East Indies, so he persuaded the Queen of Spain to fit out ships for him.

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He had three ships. They were called the Niña, Pinta, and the Santa Maria.

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In August, in the year 1492, he set sail.

They will never come back again," said the

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wise people on the shore. Soon the sailors

themselves began to agree Columbus still kept on.

with them.

He explained the

He told them that

different signs of the sea. everything would be all right if they would only trust in God, but they were very much afraid they would never return alive. They

wanted to throw Columbus overboard and

return home.

Columbus heard of these plans and called his men together. He told them that with

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the help of God they would surely succeed. At last signs of land began to appear. The branch of a tree with red berries floated by. Birds that lived only on land flew about the ship.

One morning the crew awoke to find a beautiful, glorious island stretched out before their weary eyes.

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