Ocean's Story; or, Triumphs of Thirty Centuries Maritime Adventures, Achievements, Explorations, Discoveries and Inventions; and of the Rise and Progress of Ship-Building and Ocean Navigation, from the Ark to the Iron Steamships

CHAPTER XVI.--Discovery of Guanahani--Ceremonies of taking

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Possession--Exploration of the Neighboring Islands--Search for Gold--Cuba supposed by Columbus to be Japan--The Cannibals--Haiti--Return Homewards--A Storm--An Appeal to the Virgin--Arrival at the Azores--Conduct of the Portuguese--Columbus at Lisbon--At Palos--At Barcelona--Columbus' Second Voyage--Discovery of Guadeloupe, Antigoa, Santa Cruz, Jamaica--Illness of Columbus--Terrible Battle between the Spaniards and the Savages--Columbus returns to Spain--His Reception by the Queen--His Third Voyage--The Region of Calms--Discovery of Trinidad and of the Main Land--Assumpcion and Margarita--Columbus in Chains 158