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Title: Rambles in sunny Spain
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Ober, Frederick A(lbion), 1849- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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the Rio Tinto, and with a distant view of thesea. I approached the gateway and was welcomed by the conserge(or man in charge) at the very portal where Columbus had called fora drink of water for his child nearly four hundred years ago. The building is stillin good preservation, andprobably as Columbussaw it, with many emptycloisters, where themonks then resided, afine- garden-patio in itscentre, and a mirador(or balcony) with fineviews of the coast. Theold conserge was so pleas-ant and hospitable that Iasked permission to stayovernight; and this be-ing granted, I sent backmy donkey and donkey-boy, and took possession.My friends were verypoor, but kind and cheer-f ul. I f u rnished themoney, and they sent toPalos for some goat-meatand eggs. They gaveme their best bed in oneof the cloisters, and Ipassed altogether one of the pleasantest periods of my life. The chapel is still shown here of the good old prior of the con-vent, Padre Marchena, and the very room in which was held the famous
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PEASANT. ABOUT PALOS, COLUMBUS, AND TARSHISH. 215 consultation between him and Columbus and the learned doctor,which resulted in the priors setting off on his mule to lay the casebefore Isabella. The result all the world knows now, — that Isabellawas persuaded to promise assistance to Columbus, who went to hercourt, then held at Santa Fe, in the vega of Granada, and that thefinal result was the discovery of America. So you see these fourplaces — Seville, Palos,La Rabida, and Gra-nada, for which we arenow destined — arejoined in their connec-tion with the history ofAmerica. When the Judgehad ceased speaking, abright - eyed Spaniardwho had occupied theopposite seat of ourcompartment ad-dressed him in verygood English, andasked if he had visitedthe great copper-minesof Huelva, on the op-posite shore of the baybelow Palos. TheJudge said he had; and the Spaniard continued: Those mines aresaid to have been worked by the Phoenicians two thousand years ago,and that coast is supposed to

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