item: #1 of 18
          id: 1488
      author: Brooks, Elbridge S. (Elbridge Streeter)
       title: The True Story of Christopher Columbus, Called the Great Admiral
        date: None
       words: 29251
      flesch: 82
     summary: At last Columbus, sailing on and troubled at the way Captain Alonso Pinzon had acted, came one day to the island of Hayti. At last Columbus began to grow better.
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        item: #2 of 18
          id: 15336
      author: Helps, Arthur, Sir
       title: The Life of Columbus
        date: None
       words: 53864
      flesch: 63
     summary: Such is the account of Ferdinand Columbus, who maintains that the said caravel could not be lunched for want of tackle. On Columbus's arrival at Isabella, where he remained ill for five months, he found his brother, Bartholomew Columbus, whose presence gladdened him exceedingly.
    keywords: account; admiral; cape; coast; columbus; country; course; court; day; discovery; faith; ferdinand; gold; good; henry; highnesses; hispaniola; indians; indies; isabella; island; king; land; life; long; man; men; natives; new; ovando; people; portuguese; prince; queen; return; sea; set; ships; slaves; sovereigns; spain; spaniards; spanish; things; thought; time; vessels; voyage; way; world
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        item: #3 of 18
          id: 27019
      author: Marlowe, Stephen
       title: My Shipmate—Columbus
        date: None
       words: 9330
      flesch: 96
     summary: It was these words, Danny knew, that history would record. Danny cried, striding boldly to them.
    keywords: averill; columbus; danny; history; man; martin; nina; pinzon; uncle
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        item: #4 of 18
          id: 29496
      author: None
       title: Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose
        date: None
       words: 113923
      flesch: 70
     summary: When first Columbus dared the Western main, Spanned the broad gulf, and gave a world to Spain, How thrilled his soul with tumult of delight, When through the silence of the sleepless night Burst shouts of triumph. xxii of Rivadaneyra's collection; Oveido y Valdes, Cronica de las Indias, Salamanca, 1547; Ramusio, Raccolta delle Navigatione et viaggi iii, Venetia, 1575; Herrera de Tordesillas, Historia de las Indias Occidentales, 1601; Antonio Leon Pinelo, Epitome de la Biblioteca Oriental y Occidental, Madrid, 1623; Muñoz, Historia del Nuevo Mundo, Madrid, 1793; Cancellieri, Notizia di Christoforo Colombo, 1809; Bossi, Vita di Christoforo Colombo, 1819; Charlevoix, Histoire de San Domingo; Lamartine, Christoph Colomb, Paris, 1862 (Spanish translation, 1865); Crompton, Life of Columbus, London, 1859; Voyages and Discoveries of Columbus, sixth edition, London, 1857; H. R. St. John, Life of Columbus, London, 1850.] Selected Letters of Columbus Translation of the letter of Christopher Columbus offering his services to King Ferdinand of Spain: _Most Serene Prince: I have been engaged in navigating from my youth.
    keywords: 1892; admiral; ages; america; atlantic; august; author; boston; bronze; catholic; century; chicago; christopher columbus; church; city; coast; colon; columbia; columbus; columbus monument; columbus statue; continent; country; course; court; cross; day; days; death; discoveries; discovery; earth; east; england; english; enterprise; europe; event; fair; faith; far; feet; following; footnote; friday; future; gave; genius; genoa; george; glory; god; gold; good; government; grand; half; hand; heart; henry; history; honor; house; indies; isabella; island; italian; john; juan; king; knowledge; land; left; letter; liberty; life; light; little; man; march; maria; mass; nations; near; new; north; ocean; october; palos; people; place; poet; present; queen; sail; santa; sea; second; september; set; ship; soul; south; spain; spanish; stands; states; statue; sun; thee; thought; time; united; voyage; washington; way; west; western; william; work; world; years; york
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        item: #5 of 18
          id: 36406
      author: Cooper, James Fenimore
       title: Mercedes of Castile; Or, The Voyage to Cathay
        date: None
       words: 183729
      flesch: 63
     summary: Then there is the bread that grows like a root--what think _you_ of that, Señor Don Luis? Don Luis hath visited foreign lands, you say, father, said Columbus, who did not fail to lead the discourse, like one entitled to it by rank, or personal claims, and hath a craving for the wonders and dangers of the ocean? Such hath been either his merit or his fault, Señor; had he listened to the wishes of Doña Beatriz, or to my advice, he would not have thrown aside his knightly career for one so little in unison with his training and birth.
    keywords: admiral; alonzo; beatriz; bobadilla; castile; cathay; church; colon; columbus; course; cross; day; don; don luis; doubt; doña; earth; eyes; feelings; friend; god; good; hand; hath; having; heart; highness; holy; hope; hour; isabella; king; land; left; look; love; luis; luis de; man; manner; martin; means; men; mercedes; mind; moment; nature; navigator; night; noble; ocean; order; ozema; people; place; princess; queen; royal; sancho; sea; señor; spain; speak; subject; success; thee; think; thou; thought; thy; time; true; truth; vessels; voyage; water; way; west; wife; wind; young
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        item: #6 of 18
          id: 4108
      author: Young, Filson
       title: Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 1
        date: None
       words: 23180
      flesch: 56
     summary: In fact I have tried to discover, from a reverent examination of all these monographs, essays, histories, memoirs, and controversies concerning what Christopher Columbus did, what Christopher Columbus was; believing as I do that any labour by which he can be made to live again, and from the dust of more than four hundred years be brought visibly to the mind's eye, will not be entirely without use and interest. For this period, then, we must leave him to the sea, and to the vast anonymity of sea life.
    keywords: christopher; columbus; day; domenico; earth; fact; genoa; house; human; islands; knowledge; life; light; lisbon; man; mind; new; place; sea; set; street; time; voyage; west; wife; work; world; years; young
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        item: #7 of 18
          id: 4109
      author: Young, Filson
       title: Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 2
        date: None
       words: 23378
      flesch: 61
     summary: Of these Pinzons Christopher Columbus complains greatly, and of the trouble they had given him. The sailors' tales, the logs of driftwood, the dead bodies, were all brought into the proposals; in short, if His Majesty would grant some ships, and consent to making Columbus Admiral over all the islands that he might discover, with full viceregal state, authority, and profit, he would go and discover them.
    keywords: admiral; christopher; columbus; court; day; good; idea; island; king; land; life; light; man; men; north; palos; pinzon; queen; santa; sea; ships; thing; thought; time; water; west; world; years
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        item: #8 of 18
          id: 4110
      author: Young, Filson
       title: Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 3
        date: None
       words: 20163
      flesch: 60
     summary: But as the Portuguese would not come on board Columbus told them that they were acting very unwisely in affronting his people; that in the land of the Sovereigns of Castile the Portuguese were treated with great honour and security; that he held letters of recommendation from the Sovereigns addressed to every ruler in the world, and added that he was their Admiral of the Ocean Seas and Viceroy of the Indies, and could show the Portuguese his commission to that effect; and finally, that if his people were not returned to him, he would immediately make sail for Spain with the crew that was left to him and report this insult to the Spanish Sovereigns. I have to say, Most Serene Princes, he writes, that by means of devout religious persons knowing their language well, all would soon become Christians: and thus I hope in our Lord that Your Highnesses will appoint such persons with great diligence in order to turn to the Church such great peoples, and that they will convert them, even as they have destroyed those who would not confess the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit: and after their days, as we are all mortal, they will leave their realms--in a very tranquil condition and freed from heresy and wickedness, and will be well received before the Eternal Creator, Whom may it please to give them a long life and a great increase of larger realms and dominions, and the will and disposition to spread the holy Christian religion, as they have done up to the present time, Amen.
    keywords: admiral; alonso; boat; coast; columbus; day; east; gold; good; island; king; martin; men; natives; night; nina; people; ship; spain; time; wind
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        item: #9 of 18
          id: 4111
      author: Young, Filson
       title: Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 4
        date: None
       words: 20505
      flesch: 54
     summary: She provided from her own private chapel vestments and altar furniture for the mission church in Espanola; she had the six exiles in Barcelona instructed under her eye; and she gave Columbus special orders to inflict severe punishments on any one who should offer the natives violence or injustice of any kind. During his stay at Barcelona Columbus was the guest of the Cardinal-Archbishop of Toledo, and moved thus in an atmosphere of combined temporal and spiritual dignity such as his soul loved.
    keywords: admiral; columbus; day; expedition; gold; highnesses; islands; item; king; man; manner; matter; natives; order; people; place; service; ships; spain; spaniards; things; time; voyage; west
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        item: #10 of 18
          id: 4112
      author: Young, Filson
       title: Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 5
        date: None
       words: 15942
      flesch: 60
     summary: For some reason or other Columbus did not take the northerly route going home, but sailed east from Gaudaloupe, encountering the easterly trade winds, which delayed him so much that the voyage occupied three months instead of six weeks. His small force was augmented by some men despatched by Bartholomew Columbus on receipt of an urgent message; and in command of this force Ojeda sallied forth against the natives and attacked them furiously on horse and on foot, killing a great part of them, taking others prisoner, and putting the rest to flight.
    keywords: admiral; bartholomew; caonabo; coast; colony; columbus; espanola; gold; good; isabella; island; man; margarite; men; natives; ojeda; place; ships; spain; time; voyage; way
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        item: #11 of 18
          id: 4113
      author: Young, Filson
       title: Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 6
        date: None
       words: 11727
      flesch: 58
     summary: Roldan and Bartholomew Columbus stalked each other about the island with armed forces for several months, Roldan besieging Bartholomew in the fortress at the Vega, which he had occupied in Roldan's absence, and trying to starve him out there. Columbus signs this document on the 21st of November, and promises that the ships shall be ready in fifty days; and then, at his wits' end, and hearing of irregularities in the interior of the island, sets off with Bartholomew to inspect the posts and restore them to order.
    keywords: admiral; bartholomew; coast; columbus; espanola; island; ojeda; paria; pearls; roldan; ships; spain; time; voyage; water; world
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        item: #12 of 18
          id: 4114
      author: Young, Filson
       title: Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 7
        date: None
       words: 27061
      flesch: 60
     summary: Altogether at sea as to the facts, poor Admiral, but with heart and purpose steadfast and right enough. Of all the people who were sent out successively to govern Espanola and supersede one another, the only one who really seems to have had the necessary natural ability, had he but been given the power, was Bartholomew Columbus; but unfortunately things were in such a state that the very name of Columbus was enough to bar a man from acceptance as a governor of Espanola.
    keywords: admiral; bartholomew; bobadilla; coast; columbus; day; days; diego; espanola; gold; good; highnesses; island; man; mendez; natives; order; ovando; people; sea; ships; spain; spaniards; time; voyage; water; way
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        item: #13 of 18
          id: 4115
      author: Young, Filson
       title: Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 8
        date: None
       words: 20723
      flesch: 68
     summary: The fact that Escobar had been chosen to convey this strange empty message of sympathy seemed to him suspicious, and with his profound distrust of Ovando Columbus began to wonder whether some further scheme might not be on foot to damage him in the eyes of the Sovereigns. Behechio, her brother, the only cacique who did not sue for peace after the first conquest of the island by Christopher and Bartholomew Columbus, was dead long ago of wounds and sorrow.
    keywords: admiral; bartholomew; christopher; columbus; day; days; diego; gold; highnesses; indies; letter; life; lord; man; ovando; people; sea; son; things; time; world
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        item: #14 of 18
          id: 42059
      author: Winsor, Justin
       title: Christopher Columbus and How He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery
        date: None
       words: 217883
      flesch: 68
     summary: There is nothing more striking in the history of American discovery than the fact that the Italian people furnished to Spain Columbus, to England Cabot, and to France Verrazano; and that the three leading powers of Europe, following as maritime explorers in the lead of Portugal, who could not dispense with Vespucius, another Italian, pushed their rights through men whom they had borrowed from the central region of the Mediterranean, while Italy in its own name never possessed a rood of American soil. The successive wills of Diego Columbus, it may be observed, call her in one (1509) Philippa Moñiz, and in the other (1523)
    keywords: admiral; america; asia; bartholomew columbus; belief; bobadilla; brother; cabot; cacique; cape; caravels; casas; century; character; christopher columbus; coast; colony; columbus; copy; country; course; court; crown; cuba; date; day; days; diego; discoveries; discovery; domingo; duke; east; end; england; english; española; europe; expedition; fact; father; ferdinand columbus; fleet; french; genoa; globe; gold; good; great; gulf; harbor; harrisse; historie; history; humboldt; illustration; indians; indies; irving; isabella; island; juan; june; king; knowledge; las; left; letter; life; light; line; little; making; man; map; maps; martyr; men; mind; natives; navarrete; new; north; october; ojeda; order; ovando; passage; people; pinzon; place; point; portugal; portuguese; present; ptolemy; purpose; queen; question; record; region; return; roldan; royal; santo; sea; second; september; seville; ships; shore; sidenote; son; south; sovereigns; spain; spaniards; spanish; spirit; story; thought; time; time columbus; vespucius; vessels; views; voyage; water; way; western; work; world; years
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        item: #15 of 18
          id: 63173
      author: Seawell, Molly Elliot
       title: The Son of Columbus
        date: None
       words: 45056
      flesch: 76
     summary: Come here, Don Diego, said the Queen, stopping, and you, Don Felipe. Don Diego and Don Felipe may retire to bed.
    keywords: admiral; brother; christina; city; day; diego; don diego; don felipe; don tomaso; doña; eyes; father; fernando; fray; granada; hand; horse; isabella; juan; king; luisita; man; men; night; piña; prince; queen; room; son; spain; time; world
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        item: #16 of 18
          id: 6810
      author: Byne, Mildred Stapley
       title: Christopher Columbus
        date: None
       words: 49985
      flesch: 71
     summary: We have just seen Columbus land in chains at Cadiz. With all these matters did Christopher Columbus become acquainted in the course of time, for they were everyday matters in the maritime life of the fifteenth century; but stern though such experiences were, they must have developed great personal courage in Christopher, a quality he could have none too much of if he was to lead unwilling, frightened sailors across the wide unknown sea. CHAPTER III LANDS IN THE WEST By moving from Genoa to Lisbon, Columbus found himself in a much better atmosphere for developing into a discoverer.
    keywords: admiral; chapter; christopher; christopher columbus; coast; columbus; day; days; diego; far; ferdinand; find; gold; good; isabella; island; king; land; left; letter; little; man; martin; men; natives; ocean; palos; people; pinzon; queen; san; sea; ships; spain; spanish; time; voyage; west; world; years
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        item: #17 of 18
          id: 8519
      author: Irving, Washington
       title: The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II)
        date: None
       words: 189043
      flesch: 63
     summary: Cuba, island of, Columbus bears of; sails in quest of it; discovery of; description of its appearance: hurricanes seldom known in; belief of the inhabitants in a future state; Columbus revisits the consts of; natives of; Columbus coasts along the southern side; natives; subjugated and settled by Don Diego Columbus; the remains of Columbus removed to. Leaving Don Diego Columbus in command at Isabella, he repaired with a large force to the neighborhood of the mines, and, choosing a favorable situation in a place most abounding in ore, built a fortress, to which he gave the name of San Christoval.
    keywords: account; adelantado; admiral; almirante; arrival; authority; bartholomew; board; bobadilla; brother; cacique; cap; cape; casas; case; character; city; coast; columbus; command; conduct; country; course; court; crown; cuba; day; days; death; decad; diego; diego columbus; discovery; distance; domingo; don; expedition; family; father; ferdinand; followers; fortress; gold; good; government; governor; herrera; hispaniola; hist; history; house; iii; indians; indies; inhabitants; isabella; island; jamaica; juan; kind; king; las; leagues; left; length; letter; lib; life; man; manner; marco; men; mendez; mind; mountains; natives; new; night; number; ojeda; order; ovando; people; persons; place; polo; port; portugal; power; present; principal; provisions; queen; rebels; respect; return; river; roldan; royal; sail; san; sea; set; seville; ships; shore; son; sovereigns; spain; spaniards; spanish; state; thing; time; vespucci; vessels; voyage; way; work; world; xaragua; years
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        item: #18 of 18
          id: 8683
      author: Barlow, Joel
       title: The Columbiad: A Poem
        date: None
       words: 89853
      flesch: 66
     summary: Posterity is sometimes more just to the memory of great men than contemporaries were to their persons. Till vision'd ages, opening on his eyes, Cheer'd his sad soul, and bade new nations rise; He saw the Atlantic heaven with light o'ercast, And Freedom crown his glorious work at last.
    keywords: age; air; arms; arts; blood; book; brave; bright; chief; coast; columbus; country; course; dark; day; death; deep; divine; earth; empire; europe; eye; eyes; fame; field; fire; foes; force; form; future; general; god; government; great; hand; heaven; hero; high; hills; host; king; labors; land; laws; leads; life; light; line; main; man; mankind; men; mind; nations; nature; new; o'er; peace; people; plain; pour; power; proud; race; realms; rise; roll; round; sacred; savage; sea; shore; skies; sky; sons; soul; spread; state; storm; streams; sun; sway; tho; thro; throne; thy; tide; time; train; tribes; unfold; vain; view; war; wave; way; western; wild; world; years
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