APPENDIX C




THE LIFE OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.



CHAPTER I. -- EARLY LIFE OF COLUMBUS.

HIS BIRTH AND BIRTH-PLACE--HIS EARLY EDUCATION--HIS EXPERIENCE AT
SEA--HIS MARRIAGE AND RESIDENCE IN LISBON--HIS PLANS FOR THE DISCOVERY
OF A WESTWARD PASSAGE TO THE INDIES.

Christopher Columbus was born in the Republic of Genoa. The honor of his
birth-place has been claimed by many villages in that Republic, and the
house in which he was born cannot be now pointed out with certainty. But
the best authorities agree that the children and the grown people of
the world have never been mistaken when they have said: "America was
discovered in 1492 by Christopher Columbus, a native of Genoa."

His name, and that of his family, is always written Colombo, in the
Italian papers which refer to them, for more than one hundred years
before his time. In Spain it was always written Colon; in France it is
written as Colomb; while in England it has always kept its Latin form,
Columbus. It has frequently been said that he himself assumed this form,
because Columba is the Latin word for "Dove," with a fanciful feeling
that, in carrying Christian light to the West, he had taken the mission