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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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upe, carrying a wax candle weighing fivepounds. Columbus drew the bean with the cross on it.The beans were put in a cup again, and this timeanother pilgrimage was vowed. A sailor drew themarked bean, and Columbus promised to give himmoney with which to pay the expenses of his pilgrim-age. Another lot was then cast for a pilgrimage to stillanother shrine, to say a mass there and watch all nightin the chapel. Columbus again drew the marked bean.As the storm grew worse than ever, sailors, officers, andmen at once made a solemn vow that w^ere they everspared to reach land, they would go, barefooted andclad only in their shirts, in procession to the nearestchurch dedicated to the Virgin to give thanks. After making their vows, the sailors bethought them-selves to fill all the empty barrels wdth sea w^ater, for 94 THE STORY OF COLUMBUS. the ship lacked ballast, because so much of the waterand food had been used on the voyage that she rolledvery badly. Still matters grew worse and worse. The
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COLUMBUS AND THE SAILORS DRAW BEANS men cursed their admiral for having taken them intosuch dangers, and for not having turned back, as they haddesired him on many occasions. The unhappy Colum-bus knew very well that he had made a great discovery, THE RETURN VOYAGE. 95 which would make his name known for all time if hecould once reach Spain with the news of it. Now, how-ever, the very memory of his achievement was about tobe swallowed up in the ocean, and in time to comesailors would forever be afraid to follow in his track,imagining that he had come to some mysterious anddreadful end. Then he thought about his two littleboys, Diego and Ferdinand, at school in Cordova.Their father lost, the king and queen would never knowthe great service that he had rendered them, so thatthere would be no one to befriend the children. In hissad thoughts Columbus imagined that he was now tobe terribly punished for his sins by being deprived ofthe glory of his great success. Then he began to won-der if

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