Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-09-03
.IRVIuG'S COLUMBUS
The Great DiscOverer's First
 Voyage to America.
A Far More Wonderful Story Than The Most Brilliant Imagination
 Has Yet Coniured.

A Far More Wonderful Story Than
 The Most Brilliant Imagination
 Has Yet Coniured.
 me Plnta- Ffnzon thought that accord ing to the indications of the map they ought to be in the neighborhood of Ci- pangO and the other islands which the admiral had therein delinrated
 Columbus partly entertained the same Idea, but thought 1t possible that the ships might have been borne out of their track by the prevalent currents, or that they had not come sO far as the pilots had reckoned He desired that the chart
 nigEt be returned, and PinzOn, tying 1t to the end of a cord, flung It on board to him. While Columbus, his pilots and several of his experienced mariners were studying the map, and endeavOring to make out from It their actual position, they heard shout from the Pinta, and booking up beheld Martin AlOnzo Pin LOn mounted on the stern of hIs vessel crying. "Landl land! senOr, claim my rewardr He pointe,i at the same time tO SbiliiNCSI. W nt4C llACtC was TIT deed an appearance of land at about twenty-five leagues distance. UpOn this Columbus threw himself on his knees and returned thanks to God and Mar tin AlOnzo repeated tue ''GlOria i'll Ex- celsis, m which he was joined by his own crew and that of the admiral
 The seamen now mounted to the mast ..I1 n l.. straining their eyes i'll the direction pointed out. The conviction became so general of land m that quarter, and the joy of the people so ungovernable. that Columbus found it necessary to vary from his usual course and stand all night to the southwest The morning light, however, put an end to all their hopes, as to a dream The fancied land proved to be nothing but an evening cloud and had vanished in the night With deJected hearts they once more re- sumed their western course, from which Columbus would never have varied but in compliance with their clamorous wishes.
 For several days they continued on with the same prOpitious breeze, tran quil sea and mild. delightful weather The water was so calm that the sailors amuse1 themselves with swimming about the vessel DOlphns began to abound, and flying fish. darting into the air. fell upon the decks. The continued signs of land diverted the attention of the crews and insensibly beguiled them onward.
 On the 1st of October, according to the reckoning of the pilot of the ad- lniral's ship, they had come 5S0' leagues west since leaving the Canary islands. The reckoning which Columbus showed the crew was 5S4. but the reckoning which he kept privately was TOT. On the following day the weeds hoated from east to west, and on the third day no birds were to be seen.
 The crews now began to fear that they had passed between islands, from one to the other of which the birds had been flying Columbus had also some doubts of the kind. but refused to alter his west ward course. The people again uttered murmurs and menaces. but on the fol lowing day they were visited by such flights of birds. and the various indica- tions of land became so numerous, that from state of despOndency they passed to one of confident expectation.
 Eager to obtain the promised pension. the seamen were continually giving the cry of land on the least appearance of the kind To put a stop to these false alarms. which produced continual dlsap- pointments, Columbus declared that should any one give such notice, and land not be discovered within three days afterward. he should thenceforth forfeit all claim to the reward.
 On the evening of the 9th of October Martin Alonzo PinzOn began to lose con Gdence in their present course and pro posed that they should stand more to the southward. Columbus, however. still persisted in steering directly west. Ob- serving this difference of opinion in person so important in his squadron as Pinzon, and fearing that chance or de sign might scatter the ships, he ordered that, should either of the caravels be separated from him, it should stand to the west, and endeavOr as soon as pOssi- ble to joih company again; he directed, also, that the vessels should keep near to him at sunrise and sunset, as at these times the state of the atmosphere is most favorable to the discovery of distant land.
 On the morning of the 7th of October, at sunrise, several of the admiral's creF thought they 5eheld land in the west, but so indistinctly that no one ventured to proclaim it, lest he should be mis- taken and forfeit all chance of the re- ward; the Nina. however, being a good sailer, pressed forward to ascertain the fact. E little while flag was hOisted