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Ricardo Fernández Guardia

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Description:Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II Discovery Of The Atlantic Coast Of Costa Rica By Christophee Columbus?Indian Village Of Cariay And The Island Of Quiribri?Character And Condition Of The Inhabitants?The Bay Of /oiio Baku?Veragua TEN years had passed since the dawn of that 12th day of October, 1492, when like an apparition the island of Guanahani arose before Columbus out of the dread Sea of Darkness?ten years prolific in discoveries. Hayti, Cuba, Porto Rico, Jamaica, Martinique, Trinidad and many others of the Antilles made their appearance in succession before the caravels of the dauntless navigator; and finally, on the 1st of August, 1498, the last veil that had shrouded the mystery of the new world had been torn asunder and, in its turn, the American continent had burst from the immensity of the Atlantic, greeting him with one of its marvels, the delta of the Orinoco. The great man, however, did not know that he had come upon a new world; he always believed that these strange lands were the sentinels of Asia. But, with an intuition peculiar to his genius, he surmised that there must exist somewhere among them a passage to the Indian Ocean and thus reached the conclusion that it would be found in the latitude of the Isthmus of Panama, then still undiscovered. At that point he hoped to find a strait. The search for it was the motive for his fourth and last voyage. Once more he set sail from Cadiz on the llth of May, 1502. Included in his ships' company were his brother Bartolome, his illegitimate son Fernando, a youth of thirteen years, and one hundred and forty men distributed among the four ships: Capltana, Santiago de Polos, Gallega and Vizcaina. The squadron steered first for the fortified Lusitanian city of Arzila on the Moroccan coast, which was undergoing a siege by the Moors, and which...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with History of the Discovery and Conquest of Costa Rica. To get started finding History of the Discovery and Conquest of Costa Rica, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 90

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Release: 2012

ISBN: 0217931170

Description: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II Discovery Of The Atlantic Coast Of Costa Rica By Christophee Columbus?Indian Village Of Cariay And The Island Of Quiribri?Character And Condition Of The Inhabitants?The Bay Of /oiio Baku?Veragua TEN years had passed since the dawn of that 12th day of October, 1492, when like an apparition the island of Guanahani arose before Columbus out of the dread Sea of Darkness?ten years prolific in discoveries. Hayti, Cuba, Porto Rico, Jamaica, Martinique, Trinidad and many others of the Antilles made their appearance in succession before the caravels of the dauntless navigator; and finally, on the 1st of August, 1498, the last veil that had shrouded the mystery of the new world had been torn asunder and, in its turn, the American continent had burst from the immensity of the Atlantic, greeting him with one of its marvels, the delta of the Orinoco. The great man, however, did not know that he had come upon a new world; he always believed that these strange lands were the sentinels of Asia. But, with an intuition peculiar to his genius, he surmised that there must exist somewhere among them a passage to the Indian Ocean and thus reached the conclusion that it would be found in the latitude of the Isthmus of Panama, then still undiscovered. At that point he hoped to find a strait. The search for it was the motive for his fourth and last voyage. Once more he set sail from Cadiz on the llth of May, 1502. Included in his ships' company were his brother Bartolome, his illegitimate son Fernando, a youth of thirteen years, and one hundred and forty men distributed among the four ships: Capltana, Santiago de Polos, Gallega and Vizcaina. The squadron steered first for the fortified Lusitanian city of Arzila on the Moroccan coast, which was undergoing a siege by the Moors, and which...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with History of the Discovery and Conquest of Costa Rica. To get started finding History of the Discovery and Conquest of Costa Rica, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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