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And your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes, devoted to the holy Christian faith and the propagation thereof - and enemies of the sect of Mohammet and of all idolatries and heresies, resolved to send me, Christopher Columbus, to the said

Christopher Columbus

Christian, Catholic, Enemy

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Your Highnesses have an Other World here, by which our holy faith can be so greatly advanced and from which such great wealth can be drawn.

Christopher Columbus

Faith, Other Worlds, Wealth

Letter to the Sovereigns, Third Voyage, October 18, 1498.

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A hundred castellanoes are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and there are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten (years old) are now in demand.

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Girl, Demand, Nine

"Columbus Day? True Legacy: Cruelty and Slavery" by Eric Kasum, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2010.

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It is true that after they have been reassured and have lost this fear, they are so artless and so free with all they possess, that no one would believe it without having seen it. Of anything they have, if you ask them for it, they never say no; rather they invite the person to share it, and show as much love as if they were giving their hearts.

Christopher Columbus

Fear, Believe, Heart

"Letter to the Sovereigns" by Christopher Columbus, 1493.

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And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics, since this was the end and the beginning of the enterprise, that it should be for the enhancement and glory of the Christian religion, nor should anyone who is not a good Christian come to these parts.

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Christian, Business, Feet

"Journal of the First Voyage" by Christopher Columbus, November 27, 1492.

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The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it.

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Clouds, Air, Wind

Christopher Columbus (2012). “First Voyage to America: From the Log of the "Santa Maria"”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written on this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south.

Christopher Columbus

Stars, Moon, Land

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For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.

Christopher Columbus

Writing, Journey, Purpose

Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.11

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The crew of the caravel "Nina" also saw signs of land, and a small branch covered with berries. Everyone breathed afresh and rejoiced at these signs.

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Land, Berries, Branches

Christopher Columbus, Clements R. Markham (2010). “Journal of Christopher Columbus (During His First Voyage, 1492-93): And Documents Relating the Voyages of John Cabot and Gaspar Corte Real”, p.35, Cambridge University Press

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He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls to paradise.

Christopher Columbus

Soul, Wish, Gold

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3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime. According to some ancient manuscripts 9 is not a prime number, but beyond the distant horizon of the oceans, in the New World that I am going to discover, there are surely lots of them.

Christopher Columbus

Ocean, Numbers, Horizon

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I went to sea from the most tender age and have continued in a sea life to this day. Whoever gives himself up to this art wants to know the secrets of Nature here below. It is more than forty years that I have been thus engaged. Wherever any one has sailed, there I have sailed.

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Art, Years, Sea

Christopher Columbus, Edward Everett Hale (2017). “The Life of Christopher Columbus – Discover The True Story of the Great Voyage & All the Adventures of the Infamous Explorer”, p.6, Madison & Adams Press

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I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone.

Christopher Columbus

Land, East, Gone

Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.10

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After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.

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People, House, Doubt

Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.55

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Thanks be to God, the air is soft as in April in Seville, and it is a pleasure to be in it, so fragrant it is.

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Air, April, Thanks

"Journal of the First Voyage". Book by Bartolomé de Las Casas. Entry for October 08, 1492,

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I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses.

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Men, Glasses, Dozen

Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.46

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I came to serve you at the age of 28 and now I have not a hair on me that is not white, and my body is infirm and exhausted. All that was left to me and my brothers has been taken away and sold, even to the cloak that I wore, without hearing or trial, to my great dishonor.

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Brother, Taken, Hair

Letter to the Sovereigns, Fourth Voyage, July 07, 1503.

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I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

Christopher Columbus

Discovery, Years, Desire

Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.54

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Of this voyage, I observe, that it has miraculously been shown, as may be understood by this writing, by the many signal miracles that He has shown on the voyage, and for me, who for so great a time was in the court of Your Highnesses with the opposition and against the opinion of so many high personages of your household, who were all against me, alleging this undertaking to be folly, which I hope in Our Lord will be to the greater glory of Christianity, which to some slight extent already has happened.

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Time, Writing, Miracle

"Journal of the First Voyage". Book by Bartolomé de Las Casas. Entry for March 15, 1493,

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Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as best he could, holding out good hope of the advantages they would have. He added that it was useless to complain, he had come [to go] to the Indies, and so had to continue it until he found them, with the help of Our Lord.

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Long, People, Complaining

Reported in Bartolome de las Casas, Journal of the First Voyage, 10 Oct. 1492 (translation by Samuel Eliot Morison)

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Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice! I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that is certain; for then the hope of all such things was dead. I came to Your Highnesses with honest purpose and sincere zeal; and I do not lie. I humbly beseech Your Highnesses that, if it please God to remove me hence, you will help me to go to Rome and on other pilgrimages.

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Hope, Honesty, Lying

Lettera Rarissima to the Sovereigns, Fourth Voyage, July 7, 1503.

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I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown. I am greatly supported in this view by reason of this great river [Ozama], and by this sea which is fresh.

Christopher Columbus

Believe, Views, Sea

Journal of the Third Voyage (May - August 1498), 1498.

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The Admiral says that he never beheld so fair a thing: trees all along the river, beautiful and green, and different from ours, with flowers and fruits each according to their kind, many birds and little birds which sing very sweetly.

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Beautiful, Kindness, Flower

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And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and goodness is in the sky, and they believe very firmly that I, with these ships and people, came from the sky, and in this belief they everywhere received me, after they had overcome their fear.

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Fear, Believe, Sky

Christopher Columbus (1959). “A new and fresh English translation of the letter of Columbus announcing the discovery of America”

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Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.

Christopher Columbus

Journey, Numbers, Long

Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.17

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Born: 1451
Died: May 20, 1506
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