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Columbus: The Four Voyages QUOTES

Columbus: The Four Voyages QUOTES

1 " There was one other distraction on the island of Gomera: Doña Beatriz de Bobadilla. Or, as she was known in the Canaries, “Bobadilla the huntress, a woman of rare distinction. "

― Laurence Bergreen , Columbus: The Four Voyages

2 " found many islands filled with people without number, and of them all have I taken possession for Their Highnesses, by proclamation and with the royal standard displayed, and nobody objected. "

― Laurence Bergreen , Columbus: The Four Voyages

3 " him, it was the fulfillment of a divine prophecy. To his Sovereigns and their ministers, it was intended as a landgrab and a way to plunder gold. Instead, it became, through forces Columbus inadvertently set in motion and only dimly understood, the most important voyage of its kind ever made. "

― Laurence Bergreen , Columbus: The Four Voyages

4 " We send Cristóbal Colón with three caravels through the Ocean Sea to the Indies on some business that concerns the service of God and the expansion of the Catholic faith and our benefit and utility. "

― Laurence Bergreen , Columbus: The Four Voyages