Robert Remini
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first heard Aug 2026
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meantime christopher columbus an italian had returned from an even more startling voyage from what he had read and from what other men had told him he had come to believe that the earth was round if this were really true cipango and cathay were west of europe as well as east of europe
Columbus also believed that the earth was very much smaller than it really is, and that Cipango was only 3,000 miles west of Spain.
For a time, people laughed at the idea of sailing westward to Cipango and Cathay, but at length, Columbus secured enough money to fit out a little fleet.
5.
The Voyage, 1492
Columbus left Spain in August 1492 and, refitting at the Canaries, sailed westward into the Sea of Darkness.
At 10 o'clock in the evening of October 20th, 1492, looking out into the night, he saw a light in the distance.
The fleet was soon stopped.
When day broke, there, sure enough, was land.
A boat was lowered, and Columbus, going ashore, took possession of the new land for Ferdinand and Isabella, king and queen of Aragon and Castile.
The natives came to see the discoverers.
They were reddish in color and interested in Columbus, for were they not inhabitants of the Far East?
So, he called them Indians.
6.
The Indians and the Indies
These Indians were not at all like those wonderful people of Cathay and Sipango whom Marco Polo had described.
Instead of wearing clothes of silk and of gold embroidered satin, these people wore no clothes of any kind.
But it was plain enough that the island they had found was not Sipango.
It was probably some island off the coast of Sapango.
So, on Columbus sailed and discovered Cuba.
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