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Title: The story of Columbus
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Seelye, Elizabeth Eggleston, 1858- Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902
Subjects: Columbus, Christopher
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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eform of a cross. The bodies were very much decayed,so that the men could not tell whether they were Span-iards or Indians, but Columbus began to have fears re-garding the fate of his colony. The next day the menfound two more bodies farther on, and one of these hada great deal of beard, wdiich made the Spaniards verysuspicious that there had been trouble, for the Indianshad no beards. Columbus sailed on to La Navidad, where he hadleft his colony. It was night when he got tliere, and ashe had been once wrecked on the sand bank here, henow lay off the coast to wait until morning. He causedtwo guns to be fired, thinking that if the Spaniardswere still alive they would answer with a shot from thelittle fort. There w^as a dead silence, nor could anyfires or other signs of living beings be discovered onthe shore. About midnight a canoe slipped stealthilyout to the fleet. The Indians on board hailed the firstvessel they came to and asked for Columbus. They WHAT HAD BECOME OF THE COLONY. 123
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were shown tothe admiralsship. Cohim-bus was inthe cabin, butthey wouldnot go aboardtill they sawhim. Whenhe came outthey were stilldistrustful, until alight was held upso that they couldsee his face. Thenthey w^ere willing toclimb up on deck. Oneof these Indians was a cousinof the chief Guacanagari.He brought two masks, deco-rated with gold, as a presentfrom this chief. The Indiansstayed on the ships threehours talking with Columbus.When they were asked aboutthe Spaniards whom Colum-bus left herethey said thatsome of themhad died, thatothers had beenkilled in quarrels 124 THE STORY OF COLUMBUS. among themselves, and that afterward the country hadbeen attacked by a chief named Caonabo, who Hved inthe mountains of Cibao, where gold came from. Thisking had burned the houses of both the white men andthe Indians, and that Guacanagari had himself beenwounded in the fight, and was lying at a distance fromhere ill of his wound. They said that this w^as thereason why he had not come out to th

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