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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n had suffered a severe shock not only withroyalty but with the populace. He was as much a beggar forfavor as when he first set his foot on the soil of Spain. All hishonors were withheld, and his prospects for future advancementwere cut off The Portuguese had stolen all his ideas of theOrient by rounding the Cape of Good Hope. Vasco da Gamahad arrived in Calcutta and found the real land of spices, withmore gold, pearls and substantial treasures than Columbus everdreamed of Portugal had received Vasco da Gama with openarms, and had fitted out a fleet of thirteen vessels, which wereblown westward to the coast of Brazil, and thus made theaccidental discovery of the main-land of South America, beforeColumbus was sure of what he had done. Cabot had provedthat there was a North American Continent. Thus the geniusand daring of Columbus were placed at a discount, and Spainbecame anxious lest other powers should run away with the newlands which were coming to sight. She fitted out many expedi-
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COLUMBUS REFUSES TO HAVE HIS CHAINS REMOVED EXCEPT BY ORDER OF THE KING. 55 56 COLUMBUS AND THE 5lEW WORLD. tions, under the old captains of Columbus, and one of them hadcome back loaded with pearls and gold. The opinion grew that •Columbus was neither a good discoverer or governor, in com-parison with others, and that the privileges which had beengranted him were entirely too vast. , But a ray appeared in his favor in the fact that Bobadilla hadproved a worse governor than he. His favoritism led to disor-ders, slavery became more than ever a confirmed institution, andthe worthless colonists lolled in their hammocks at the expense ofthe natives whose lands they had stolen and whose liberty theyhad sacrificed. So crying became the situation in Hispaniola thatBobadilla was deposed and Nicholas de Ovando made governor.Under Ovando came the magnificent Christian reforms whichlimited slavery of Indians to those who worked for the Crownfor pay, and which substituted for the system which C

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