Date of article 1991

Headline: The voyage of discovery Begins

Author: Lorenzo Camusso

Source of Article: Columbus

Columbus sailed the ocean. With a crew of men who wanted to stay home, They sailed the ocean for more than a month. They stopped and watched and did not no what to do there was many ups and down about the trip. The square sails were going fast along the water and the one triangle sail was going slow as slow as a snail.

About Columbus

Columbus was a fine man. He was born in the year of 1451 he was born in the town of Republic of the Genoa that town is now known as our beautiful city of Italy. In his early year of about 20 ish he moved to the town Lisbon, Portugal. But he was not that happy so he decided to move to the town of Spain. Which was then was his home for the rest of his life.

In His Early Days:

It was not Columbus's first time in the sea as a true teen he went to sea for some trading events in the Mediterranean and the Aegean sea. On one of his voyage as a teen it brought him to island of Khios. In modern day Greece which is the closet he ever go to Asia. His first voyage was had almost cost him his life he was in the Atlantic sea when his ship was attacked by the French privateers. Off the coast of Portugal His ship was attacked in 1476. His ship was burned to the ocean floor Columbus has to swim for his life if he didn't he would die and this would have never happened. Columbus swam to the shore of Portugal. DID YOU KNOW? Columbus was married to a beautiful woman named Felipa Perestrello and they had one son who was named Diego who was born in 1480. His wife died soon , and Columbus moved to Spain. he had another son named Fernando, who was born out of wedlock in 1488 with Beatriz Enriquez de Arana. After participating in several other expeditions to Africa, Columbus gained knowledge of the Atlantic currents flowing east and west from the Canary Islands.

Three word definition

1. Embarked: means to start or aboard a ship or plane.
2. Helmsmen: the men who steers the ship or boat.
3. Morning: to serve a ship in a particular place by ropes.

Map of discovery

This image is showing how Columbus traveled from Palos Spain to the now Bahamas.

The Destination

Columbus had a main plain to travel to Asia and they said that it would be easier to travel to Asia if you go around Spain. But they thought they could go down and out and they would then make it to Asia so that is what they did. They heading on the coast for a few hundred miles and then went outward they took many twists and turns. They went up and down. They thought at one point they saw land and they were in the middle of the ocean. One crew member thought that he saw land, they went after it and then it was gone. They were giving up and saying we are lost and we will never find land. They then saw birds and they thought the birds might take us to land. They fallowed them for days. The crew said they are just bringing us farther in the ocean and not closer to land. Then they saw tree branches, broken music pieces, and bottles. Then they saw land, a crew member saw land. The first crew member or person to see land got a bag of coins. They crew said give that man his coins he saw land first. Then Columbus said no i get the bag of coins because I saw and in the night but I did not want to wake you guys because you were asleep.

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