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Columbus diary
Title: Columbus diary
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1595 | Pages: 6.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Columbus diary
Columbus
Brief History:
Christopher Columbus was an Italian-Spanish navigator who
sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a route to Asia
but achieved fame by making landfall, instead, in the Caribbean Sea.
Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy. His father was a weaver, and it
is believed that Christopher entered this trade as a young man. In the
mid-1470s he made his first trading voyage to the island of Khíos in
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…showed last 75 words of 1595 total…seeing nothing of the land which the Nina had
made signals for, and observing large flocks of
birds coming from the North and making for the
southwest, I concluded that they were either
going to land to pass the night, or abandoning the
countries of the north, on account of the
approaching winter, I determined to alter the
course.
Bibliography
1. Morison, Samuel Eliot. Admiral of the Ocean Sea.
Little, 1942.
2. Encarta ‘98. “Christopher Columbus.” 1998.
3. www.columbus.org. !999.
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