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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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COLUMBUS. ABOUT PA LOS, COLUMBUS, AND TARSHISH. 213 in 1493, that city was the great fitting-out station for the fleets.From Seville, one day in April, I took train for a little station onthe railroad called Huelva; but I was told by a fellow-passenger thatI must go by the way of Moguer if I would visit the very route ofColumbus as he himself went to Palos. So I sought it out, — a littlesleepy town with a great church and an old convent. This con-vent, by the way, or the chapel attached to it, was the one to whichColumbus and his sailors went to say their prayers after their returnfrom America, in the fulfilment of a vow they had made at sea dur-ing a terrible storm. Here I saw, too, the ancestral dwelling of thePinzons, those gallant captains who wrent with Columbus, and butfor whom, doubtless, he would never have been able to get ships andsailors for his great expedition. Their descendants still reside there,though much to my regret I learned that the family was away ; forI very m

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