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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unition wereplaced aboard of one vessel, which was placed in command of hisbrother Diego. Columbus now headed a grand expedition of 400men, richly dressed, preceded by drums and banners, accom-panied by a large body of natives from about Isabella, the objectbeing to find the gold fields of Cibao, and to impress the nativeswith his power. They climbed the mountains of Monte Christo,crossed the beautiful valley of Vega Real, ascended the ruggedslopes of Cibao, and laid out a fort, called St. Thomas, becauseof the doubt which had been expressed about finding gold. Thenatives received him kindly, offering food and grains of gold inexchange for Spanish gew-gaws. Leaving fifty-six men to buildthe fort, Columbus returned to Isabella on March 29, 1494.He found that the wheat, sugar-cane, cucumbers, and other seedswhich had been planted about Isabella, had grown, and he wasgreatly pleased with the fertility of the soil. But the climateproved deadly to the colonists, and they grew more and more
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^wMillilfllil COLUMBUS QUELLING THE MUTINY. 45 46 COLUMBUS AND THE NEW WORLD. discontented. Many of them were of noble blood and unusedto work, and they rebelled at the rules laid down by Columbus,whom they looked upon as a foreigner and plebeian. He didhis best to keep them employed, that being his safeguardagainst open mutiny. As a means to this end he ordered someto build mills, sent forth another expedition to Fort St. Thomas,and prepared for another voyage of discovery, having by thistime concluded that the firm land of Asia lay not far to thewest of Hispaniola. LOOKING FOR ASIA.—On April 24, 1494, Columbus sailedwestward for the Continent of Asia, in three small ships. Hewas most anxious to discover and claim all the new lands in thename of Spain, before the Portuguese should reach them bysailing around Cape of Good Hope in the opposite direction.From this we may infer that Columbus had accepted the theoryof the rotundity of the earth. He struck the island of Cubaand skirted i

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