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HOW COLUMBUS GAINED A QUEEN FOR HIS FRIEND.
When you wish very much to do a certain thing it is dreadfully hard to be patient; it is harder still to have to wait.

Columbus had to do both.
The wars against the Moors were of much greater interest to the king and queen of Spain than was the finding of a new and very uncertain way to get to Cathay.

If it had not been for the patience and what we call the persistence of Columbus, America would never have been discovered--at least not in his time.
He staid in Spain.

He grew poorer and, poorer.