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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, about 1446. His parents were weavers ofwool and silk, and there is reason to believe that young Co4um-bus was reared to the same trade. Some opportunity for aprimary education came to him through the little schools estab-lished by the weavers of Genoa for their children. There is noevidence that he ever received other school education, and, there-fore, must have educated himself for that career which Was tomake him famous. Genoa, like other Italian cities that haveenriched themselves by sending out and receiving ships, offereda fine field for that teaching which comes from obseivation, andno doubt Columbus spent much of his leisure time, when young,about the wharves of Genoa, watching the coming and goingof vessels, and gathering from the seamen their stories of ad-venture. It may be that in this way he first became acquaintedwith the exploits of Marco Polo, the riches of the East, thediscoveries of Prince Henry of Portugal in the Atlantic Ocean,
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COLUMBUS AS A BOY. 21 22 COLUMBUS AND THE NEW WORLD. and the then ahiiost universal desire among conitnercial nationsand ocean navigators to reach India by a water way around Africa.Certain it is that he had a lively imagination and a great deal ofambition, and he may have pictured to hiniielf, while yet ayouth, adventures stranger than those of Polo and discoveriesfar more momentous than those of Prince Henry. COLUMBUS THE TRADER.—Yox the young men of theItalian commercial cities the sea opened almost the only pathto fame and fortune, and we read of many enterprising sailorswho flocked westward to Portugal to swell her marine and joinin her spirit of ocean discovery. In 1470 Columbus enteredupon a short trading voyage, on his own responsibility. Hewas then only twenty-four years old. More than likely this wasnot a successful venture, for the next year we find him with hisfather, who had moved to Savona. Here Columbus remained,working at his trade, till 1473, or until he was twenty-

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