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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
Life Stories for Young People
Christopher Columbus
Translated from the German of
Joachim Heinrich Campe
BY
GEORGE P. UPTON
Translator of “Memories,” “Immensee,” etc.
WITH FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS
CHICAGO
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
1911
Copyright
A. C. McClurg & Co.
1911
Published September, 1911
THE · PLIMPTON · PRESS
[W · D · O]
NORWOOD · MASS · U · S · A
Translator’s Preface
There are five representatives of the Columbusfamily more or less famous in the historyof exploration, viz., Christopher, the discovererof America; Bartolomeo, brother of Christopher,governor of Isabella and founder of SanDomingo; Diego, brother of Christopher, who accompaniedhim on his second voyage and subsequentlyentered the priesthood; Diego, son ofChristopher, and his successor as governor of Hispaniola;Ferdinand, illegitimate son of Christopher,who accompanied his father on his fourth voyageand became his biographer; and Colon, grandsonof Christopher, who was made Duke of Veraqua,Marquis of Jamaica, and Captain-general of Hispaniola;but all of them shine in the reflected lightof Christopher, except his brother Bartolomeo, who,while not as skilful a navigator and explorer as hisbrother, was a great soldier, an experienced administrator,and the principal support of Christopher inhis many difficulties and hardships.
The story of Columbus, apart from his discoveryof America and his many thrilling adventures in theWest Indies, should be one of absorbing interest toyouth. It is the story of a man who in his youthfuldays conceived a vast project, for his time, adheredto it with inflexible resolution though confrontedwith obstacles which would have discouraged anyordinary man, suffered privations and hardships ofthe most trying kind, meeting threats against hislife, shipwreck, physical ailments, poverty, maliciousattacks of bitter enemies, shameful calumnies, thedisgrace of being