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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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for he signed a / a . contract to pay a man sixtydollars for some winewhich Columbus wasto take on board avessel and trade atsome other port in theMediterranean. Buthe does not seem to have been yetmuch of a sailor, for he is still calleda weaver in the old papers. In Genoa a young man w^as notof age until he was twenty-five yearsold. About the time that Colum-bus came of age his father movedwith his family to the city of Sa-vona, and there set up a weaversshop. Two years after the removalto Savona a young comrade of Chris-tophers, named Mcolo Monleone,who was also a weaver, died. Be-fore Kicolo died, he made a will, towhich there were six witnesses, threeof whom were tailors, one a boot-maker, one a cloth-dresser, and one aweaver, this weaver being Christo-3 y/^2^^EZ^^ W^A fW-^WM/ZW^ yn=£ m PLAN OF THE GROUND-FLOOR OF THE HOUSEIX WHICH COLUMBUSLIVED. (STAGLIENO.) 20 THE STORY OF COLUMBUS. pher Columbus. From this we know that Columbuswas yet a plain working man. Soon after this, the
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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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