Voyage of Discovery
Hal Stokes
Red Group
1/23/2018
Date of Article: 1991
Headline: 1492 The Voyage Of Discovery Begins
Author: Lorenzo Camusso
Source of the Article: Camusso, Lorenzo, LC, The Voyages of Columbus. Milan, Dorset, 1991.
Three Vocabulary Words:
1.Helmsman- a man aboard a ship who steers
2. Embarkment / Embarkation leaving or beginning of a voyage
3.Surmising- Supposing something is true without evidence
Summary: (PARAGRAPH FORM, Who, What, Where, When, Why)
In Spain on august 3 1492 Christopher Columbus set sail aboard three ships by means of the Tinto river. He traveled downstream on the ebb tide. By nightfall they had set their course to the Canary islands. On the sixth the Pinta already had a broken rudder. Columbus suspected sabotage. Once they arrived on the canaries they traded out the pinta triangular sails for square ones.