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Title: A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
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Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong, and Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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y-two I should discover the continent of the Indies andmany islands, among them Hispaniola, which the Indians call Ayte,and the Monicongos, Cipango. When the successful discoverer returned to Spain from his first voy-age, his reception was a triumph such as never waited upon any con- queror. The people from city and town, from village andphai return couutry-sidc, crowdcd streets and highways as he travelled from Palos to Barcelona, to do homage to the man who hadgiven India to Spain. At Barcelona the king and queen received himsitting on their thrones under a canopy in the open air, and hesitated 1 Letter on the Fourth Voyage, in Select Letters of Columbus, edited by R. H. Major.Hakluyt Soc. Pub. TRIUMPHAL RETURN TO SPAIN. 115 when he approached to accept the customary mark of homage duefrom a subject to a sovereign. In Portugal, where before this arrivalin Spain he was compelled by stress of weather to seek a haven, hewas met with the most bitter exasperation that he should have suc-
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Reception by Sovereigns. ceeded in snatching from that kingdom the glory and power and richesher kings and princes had so long sought in the possession of that Eastwhich he by the boldness of his genius had found by a few dayswestward sailing. Some of the advisers of John II. even counselledhis assassination, in the hope that the way to his discovery wouldperish with him. 116 INDIA —THE EL DORADO OF COLUMBUS. (Chap. V. But the rage of the Portuguese and the admiration of the Spaniardswere alike blind. Had it been known that the tidings he broughtwere of an unknown world, peopled, apparently, by naked savagesonly; that his theory as to the dimensions and divisions of the earthwas proved to be a mistake ; that the only feasible road to India wasthat which the Portuguese had so long sought, round the Cape ofGood Hope ; then he might indeed have aroused some languid curios-ity for what he had done, but, still more, bitter ridicule and disap-pointment for his failure to fulfil the magnif

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