[The Life of Christopher Columbus from his own Letters and Journals by Edward Everett Hale]@TWC D-Link book
The Life of Christopher Columbus from his own Letters and Journals

CHAPTER VIII
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This was that of San Martin.

The Admiral sent a boat ashore to ask what people lived on the island, and to ask his way, although, as he afterwards found, his own calculations were so correct that he did not need any help.

The boat's crew took some captives, and as it was going back to the ships, a canoe came up in which were four men, two women and a boy.

They were so astonished at seeing the fleet, that they remained, wondering what it could be, "two Lombard-shot from the ship," and did not see the boat till it was close to them.

They now tried to get off, but were so pressed by the boat that they could not.


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