Identifier: christophercolu02youn (find matches)
Title: Christopher Columbus and the New World of his discovery : a narrative
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Young, Filson, 1876-1938 Dunraven, Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, Earl of, 1841-1926
Subjects: Columbus, Christopher
Publisher: London : Grant Richards
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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his work relating to food or animals at thistime has the true ring of boyish interest and observation,and is in sharp contrast to the second-hand and artificialtone of the earlier chapters of his book. About the inci-dent of the howling monkey, which the Admirals Irishhound would not face, Ferdinand remarks that it frighteda good dog that we had, but frighted one of our wildboars a great deal more ; and as to the condition of thebiscuits when they turned westward again, he says thatthey were so full of weevils that, as God shall help me,I saw many that stayed till night to eat their sop for fearof seeing them. After experiencing some terrible weather, in the courseof which they had been obliged to catch sharks for foodand had once been nearly overwhelmed by a waterspout,they entered a harbour where, in the words of youngFerdinand, ^ we saw the people living like birds in thetops of the trees, laying sticks across from bough tobough and building their huts upon them; and though( 170 )
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THE LAST VOYAGE we knew not the reason of the custom we guessed thatit was done for fear of their enemies, or of the griffinsthat are in this island. After further experiences ofbad weather they made what looked like a suitableharbour on the coast of Veragua, which harbour, as theyentered it on the day of the Epiphany (January 9,1503), they named Belem or Bethlehem. The river inthe mouth of which they were anchored, however, wassubject to sudden spouts and gushes of water from thehills, one of which occurred on January 24th and nearlyswamped the caravels. This spout of water was causedby the rainy season, which had begun in the mountainsand presently came down to the coast, where it rainedcontinuously until the 14th of February. They had madefriends with the Quibian or chief of the country, andhe had offered to conduct them to the place where thegold mines were ; so Bartholomew was sent off in therain with a boat party to find this territory. It turnedout afterwards that the cunning Q

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