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and also the Queens treasurer. They
persuaded her majesty to cough up the
dough and finance the expedition.
SO Columbus equipped three small
ships and set sail ON August 3. 1892.
lie called at the Canary islands to
meiid a fiat tire and take aboard an
adequate supply OF gasoline and then
started across the Atlantic ON Septic.
Although Columbus was religious and
had always said his main idea was
to bring the light OF Christianity to the
heathen. he was none the less a stern
master aboard ship.
lie could cuss the crew In way that
loosened the smokestack guys, be-
Gained the mainsnil and made the ship
smell Of birthstone Spanish Is.
should judge, a very effective language
for that purpose.
once the ships chaplain asked him
why he sworc Mt the crew so much
and he replied, II have TO talk to those
birds in their own lam uage in order
to make them understand. II say to
II man. Go swab the deck the deck
remains unswabbed; hut II say
Here. you blank ty-blanked son OF a
Senegambian sea cook. swab that
blankcty-blunked deck or III fix you
50 you won't know yourself fran a.
last years corpse I'll get action i'm
mediatcly." Columbus also kept two
logs one for the crew 10 look at in
which the salings were recorded as
shorter than they really were. and one
for himsef In which the distances were
recorded correctly. In modern times
we have ships propelled 10y petrol and
crude oil, hut In Columbus time the
motive power was furnished by grog.
when there was plenty Of grog the ma
chinery Of theShip ran smoothly. but
when the supply Of grog gave out, the
trouble began. Columbus believing
that the Atlantic was smaller than II
really was, had failed to take on sur |
ficient quantity Of grog, and on Oct. |
10th the supply ran out and the crew
became rebellious. Columbus ordered |
all hands on deck 10 splice the mainsail |
stay-brace. hut they told him to go
and chase himself and said that II he
lid not turn the ships round and heal
back for sunny Spain, they wor Id
throw him overheard 10 Davy JW le's
locker. But fortunately there were
llrcady Indications Of land, lsoug hs Of
trees having been seen floating in the
water. and Columbus declared that he
would not return until he had discover.
rd land and he persuaded he men to
wait little longer.
ON the morning Of Oct. 18Th, the LIST
mate and the Chief Stok err were stand
ing abaft the pinnacle on the off side
near the lee Scuppers5. and the mate
suddenly pointed to the horizon and
said "Shiycr my ti'nbers if that isn't
and The Stoker looked and said,
You can scuddle me for a cod boat
]; isn't Columbus came on deck
and viewed the land through his binOc-
liars and then or dered drinks for the
,rOwd To comHeJ norate the event. The
lard turned cut to be an Island, and
Is generally SUP posed to have been one
u the BaInIn Islands. The natives
were friendly, and made Columbus UNI
lerstand thai. there was Il large body
" land to the south lie set still and
arrived at, Cuba where he was well re-
'eiyed Tie natives thought that the
white nIen were Gods. But they KNOW
differe mt nowadays though. ASK them
and they will tell you. Columbus no
ticed, that the natives smoked the
leaves Of a plant which they rolled
into tubes and called tobacco. This to-
bacco forwards became very uSefui
and is nowadays used to flavor Gig
arettes and cigars, the other ingredi-
ents Of these articles being matter
for conj ecture. Tobacco is also used
for eating purposes and gentlemen car
RS big chunks of ii around In their
packets. take bite Of 1t and deposit
the juice en- the floor or ceiling or any
other convenient place. Columbus then
went 10 Hayti and his best ship got
wrecked on the shore. He built a
fort with the remains Of the ship and
left a colony there. He then shanghai
cd few Indians and returned to
Spain. arriving March 18TH after an
absence of months. The King and
Queen gave him the welcome he de-
served aud people who had previously
ridiculed him now approached him
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