The Voyage Of Discovery

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.