Peter Parley's Tales About America and Australia

he arrived on the coast of Honduras. There he had an interview with some of the inhabitants of the continent

ns got the gold which they wore by way of ornaments, they directed him to countries situated to

he discovery of Mexico and the other opulent countries of New Spain would have necessarily followed, the Southern Ocean wo

Indian Ocean. In this navigation he explored a great extent of coast from Cape Gracios à Dios

had not followed this course many days when he was overtak

ption of Columbus, boiled at times like a cauldron, at other times it ran in mountain waves covered with foam:

essant flashes of lightning, while the loud claps of thunder wer

whirled up into a kind of pyramid or cone; while a livid cloud, tapering to a point, bent down to meet it; joining together, they formed a column, whic

and storms like these. One of them founde

the tempest his ships falling foul of each other, it was wi

hat, to prevent them from sinking, and to save the li

own. In this juncture he had recourse to the hospitable kindness of the natives, who, consider

or creeping along the coast, two of his brave and faithful companions, assisted by a few Indians, gallantly offered to

hat will you think of the unfeeling cruelty of this man, when I tell you that he suffered these brave men to wait eight months befo

ear, exposed to misery in all its various forms. When he arrived at St. Domingo, Ovando treated him with every kind of insult and inj

ly from a painful and dangerous disease, and his mind was kept uneasy and anxious by a continued succession of storms. One of the vessels being disabled,

e death of his patroness queen Isabella, from w

and honours which he had formerly conferred upon him, insult

exhausted with the calamities which he had endured, and broken with infirmities, this gr

and on his tomb was engraved an epitaph c

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ldom meet with much gratitude from men in their lives; they must look to God

defence of the property and lives of these harmless natives that brought down upon his head such bitter hatred. You will now look into your map and follow Columbus in some of his discoveries. You will see a great number of islands extending in a curve from Florida, which is the southernmost part of the United States, to the mouth of the river Oronoko in South America;

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