Identifier: journalofamerica00mill (find matches)
Title: The journal of American history
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Americana Antiques
Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Associated Publishers of American Records
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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go when Columbus returned to Spain, arriving atthe same little port of Palos from where he had started 225 days before. A wonder-ful achievement! Among these household articles were netted hammocks, utensils of earthenpottery, what seemed to be an iron pot, and the stern-post of a European ship.Several receptacles of different sizes and shapes, for various uses, called by the Indiansjicaras, were also found. They were made from a melon-like fruit called Giiira, inSpanish, and in English, Calabash-tree, of which there are two species, the Crescentiacujete and the Crescentia cucurbitina; cups, hollow dishes, bottles, and so forth,were then, and are still, made of this fruit, which is never eaten, but with the softpulp of its inner part there is prepared a pectoral syrup which is a common householdremedy in all the Spanish Antilles. These were not real parrots, but as the author himself says in his letter,papagayos, that is, macaws with a short tail, or popinjays. 1 1 IM « *• c/j o rt
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