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Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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484 COLUMBUS QUfiLiaNQ THE MUTINY. LA RABIDA CONVENT. 485 shown, the port at which the expedition was organized. From thedocks here Columbus set sail on the 3d of August, 1492. In May,1528, Cortez landed at Palos, after the conquest of Mexico, and by astrange coincidence met there Francisco Pizarro, who was just start-ing upon his career of bloodshed and devastation in Peru. Thetown of Palos was selected as a place of departure for Columbusbecause its inhabitants, on account of a disturbance that had takenplace among them during the war with the Moors, had been con-demned to keep, at their own expense, two caravels with crews and
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RECEPTION OE COI^UMBUS BY OUEEN ISABEI<I.A. arms, at the service of the state for one y^^r, and ready for sea onreceipt of orders. The scenes associated with the first voyage of Columbus arenumerous and of particular Interest. Many paintings are hereIncluded. There are pictures of the caravels ; of Father Perez bid-ding farewell to Columbus; of Columbus on the deck of his ship,and of the mutiny when the sailors demanded a return to Spain.There are charts, and maps, and views of all the disputed islandswhich claim the honor of belne the first discovered land, althouehWatling Island has by all means the weight of evidence. Thereare scenes on San Salvador, Cuba, Santo Domingo, Hayti and 486 LA RABIDA CONVENT. Other places visited on the first voyage. There are also paintingsshowing the reception of Columbus at court when he first appearedbefore Isabella and Ferdinand. One of the strangest pictures Isfrom an old engraving In Phlloponos Voyage to the New Worldof the Western Indies. The

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