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The True Story of Christopher Columbus

CHAPTER XII
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HOW THE ADMIRAL PLAYED ROBINSON CRUSOE.
While the terrible storm that wrecked the great gold fleet of the governor was raging so furiously, Columbus with his four ships was lying as near shore as he dared in a little bay farther down the coast of Hayti.

Here he escaped the full fury of the gale, but still his ships suffered greatly, and came very near being shipwrecked.

They became separated in the storm, but the caravels met at last after the storm was over and steered away for the island of Jamaica.
For several days they sailed about among the West India Islands; then they took a westerly course, and on the thirtieth of July, Columbus saw before him the misty outlines of certain high mountains which he supposed to be somewhere in Asia, but which we now know were the Coast Range Mountains of Honduras.

And Honduras, you remember, is a part of Central America.
Just turn to the map of Central America in your geography and find Honduras.


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