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Copyright. 1911. by The irs Publishing TO. Te New York World.
No. "A BIunder That Opened a New World.

No. IA Blunder That Opened a New World.
T1IR0NG of addressed, wndeyed mn yer making life a burden
for the officials at the Spanish court. All were eager for an In.
= tervew with Ferdinand and Isabella the King and Queen. Some
A of them claimed to have secrets for turning iron into gold. Others
had schemes TO impossible conquest. Still others begged for money
enough to complete some crazy invention. Cranks of all sorts clanored
for recognition. And. to the minds of the amused courtiers, the most
idiotic. impractical crank of the lot WI a graybearded, weather beaten
man who was actually SO foolish al to believe he could reach the East In.
dies by sailing westward!
The courtes ere right. The man. Christopher Columbus of Genoa.
who had journeyed to SPANS court in the hope of interesting the King
and Queen in his project to reach the East by sailing west" had but one
ida. and that "a a wrong one But it CHANGED that several of his beliefs
which led up o that idea were correct. among them the theory that the
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be asst bodies of land between to bloch his ships progress
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{" j. country; ne monarch after another rejected the "ondrou' oDporsan:
Columbus, from the stories handed do" by Lett the Lucky; believed there
He never ne~ better to the day off, his. death It would have been useless to
laid .re., on M wealth It would mean. for India was the supposed to N.
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Even WITH ar royal Enforcement the plan an for un a 'me ~ " Ing. h nero, None MOI syh ~ns
or so mad IN enterprise The crews of colnmbuss three little ships wee
prison on condition they would Join the expedition, Broken debtor. were de
law" r sr S snon}. SPAIN SH an mad us ssG"a too s nj snel Is s ne a H suppose "crann." .na
mann %' by iaons a ana ii no%pc'ents the n% world" greatest % Toyase of discovery
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-" nmbuss ragamuhhns on this desperate trip Their agree
ment permitted them TO turn back! II they should not find lad within 2o
nnes So Columbus kept a fase log to make them think the distance they
had taverSd was shorter tina It really was Even so. tey muhned nd were
with difficulty kept rom turning their vessels back to Spain "a hunorst has
aid Columbus deserved little credit for finding America. since America vas
there md HI was bound, sooner or later. 10 rn ID against II in his western
course)
At asst, IN Oct Il, 1892 aner a stormy voyage OF to months n nine
days. they sighted land. 1t as a popna, island sal salvador a, which they
nrt touched. Columbus thought ne had reached India. am he named the p
pr-colored natives Indians" lie skhtd the group of Islands. reaching Cuba.
Hayti and other new territory. on alter voyages he planted colonies DISCOVERIES
South America am vent to the western verge of the Gulf Of Mexico whore
he thought ne had reached Japan. sd
Jealousy n insrau,ude logged his steps Once he as dragged back TO
Spain In chans. HIS services were nt rewarded The mar no had discoV-
cred M helped to conmzea new world vas allowed to die in poverty m
obscurty. Nor did he wen have the JOY of knowing wha lie had acheved
Columbus discovered America. He d changed TN future OF the eaTh
n lie died without knowing he had discovered anything more important tnA
a supposed short cut to India.