Letter of Christopher Columbus The Great Benefactor of the Present Age; Concerning the Newly Discovered Islands of India Upon the Ganges, Upon Which Enterprise He Was Despatched Eight Months Since by the Invincible Sovereigns of Spain; Ferdinand and Isab

Excerpt from Letter of Christopher Columbus: The Great Benefactor of the Present Age; Concerning the Newly Discovered Islands of India Upon the Ganges, Upon Which Enterprise He Was Despatched Eight Months Since by the Invincible Sovereigns of Spain; Ferdinand and Isabella; Directed to Don Rafael San Arrivmg at the one last mentioned, I sailed along the coast toward the West, discovering so great an extent of land that I could not imagine it to be an island, but the continent of Cathay. I did not, however, discover upon the coast any large cities, all we saw being a few villages and farms, with the inhabitants of which we could not obtain any communication, they all flying at our approach. I continued my course, still expecting to meet with some town or city, but after having gone a great distance, and not meeting with any, and find ing myself proceeding toward the North, which I was desirous to avoid on account of the cold, and, moreover, meeting with a contrary wind, I deter mined to return to the South, and, therefore, putabout and sailed back to a harbour which I had before observed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.