You might as well expect to find land in the sky, they said, as in those terrible waters.
And when, in this way, Columbus found out that King John had tried to use his ideas without letting him know anything about it, he was very angry.

His wife had died in the midst of this mean trick of the Portuguese king, and so, taking with him his little five-year-old son, Diego, he left Portugal secretly and went over into Spain.
Near the little town of Palos, in western Spain, is a green hill looking out toward the Atlantic.

Upon this hill stands an old building that, four hundred years ago, was used as a a convent or home for priests.

It was called the Convent of Rabida, and the priest at the head of it was named the Friar Juan Perez.

One autumn day, in the year 1484, Friar Juan Perez saw a dusty traveler with a little boy talking with the gate-keeper of the convent.