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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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CATIIEDKAL OF SAN LORENZO, GENOA. young weaver and his father signed a paper in which,they agreed to pay for some wool in pieces of cloth. Old legal papers, the only sources from which wecan learn anything very certain about the early life of YOUNG COLUMBUS. 21 Columbus, show that he lived in Savona as a weaveruntil 1473, when he must have been about twenty-sevenyears old. There can be no doubt, however, that Chris-topher Columbus was no common weavers boy, for hehad less than twenty years more in which to learn to bea great navigator as well as to become a man of consid-erable education. It is altogether likely that he had very
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HARBOR OF SAVONA. little schooling, and that, like other men who have beenpoor boys and become famous, he educated himself byhard study at odd times. Genoa, like other Italian cities, had made itself richby sending ships out to trade. All the land which be-longed to this city was a very small province, hemmedin by mountains, and most Genoese men who wished to 22 THE STORY OF COLUMBUS. become rich or famous had to take to the sea. Theprovince of Genoa had ah-eady furnished many admiralsto Portugal, where such great discoveries were beingpushed forward. No doubt Columbus, from the timethat he was a little boy, had often stood on the wharvesand seen the ships unloading their valuable merchandise,while he talked with seamen fresh from distant lands.He must have heard of Prince Henrys great plan forreaching India by going around Africa, and of the voy-ages made by the Portuguese. Perhaps he too hadheard while he was still a weaver the story of MarcoPolos strange travels, for we know that a

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