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Title: The storied West Indies
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ober, Frederick A. (Frederick Albion), 1849-1913
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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naltitude of more than seven thousand feet. Theisland was discovered by Columbus on his second voy-age, in 1494, but is more particularly identified withhis fourth, and last, which extended from 1502 to1504, and was the most disastrous of all. AVe havenoted that Columbus touched at Hispaniola on thisvoyage, where he warned the governor of an ap-proaching hurricane: that his advice was disregarded,BobadUlas fleet being wrecked in the storm: andthat his own little squadron was in great danger onthe south coast of that island. Having been forbid-den to land anywhere on the coast of Hispaniola,Columbus steered for Veragua. where, after re-peated failures to found a settlement, he at lastwas driven by a great storm to the south coast ofCuba, whence, with his vessels in a shattered andsinking condition, he sought the north shore of Ja-maica. This north coast has many good harbors, andinto one of these, which he called Porto Bueno. hesailed with his sinking ships. A little later, with-15 203
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JAMAICA AND THE MAROONS 205 drawing his craft from this harbor, he entered a smallbay and ran them ashore on the sands, where he waskept a prisoner for more than a year by the com-bined forces of the elements and the hostile natives.The bay in which he stranded his vessels is stillknown as Don Christophers Cove, and one day Ivisited and photographed the scene of this the sad-dest episode in the life of Columbus. Running the vessels upon the shore, Columbuspropped them in an upright position, then built athatched roof over the decks, and thus castled inthe sea, as he terms it, he remained in this spot along and weary twelvemonth. At first the Indians,who were allied to those of Haiti but more fierceand warlike, were inclined to pity his misfortunesand supply him with fresh provisions; but at lastthey became rebellious and refused longer to renderassistance. Then it was, if we may believe the ac-counts transmitted to us, that he gained by artificewhat he could not obtain by force or ent

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