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HOW A BOY BROUGHT THE ADMIRAL TO GRIEF.
Columbus kept sailing on from one island to another.

Each new island he found would, he hoped, bring him nearer to Cathay and to the marble temples and golden palaces and splendid cities he was looking for.

But the temples and palaces and cities did not appear.

When the Admiral came to the coast of Cuba he said: This, I know, is the mainland of Asia.