Columbus diary

Columbus Brief History: Christopher Columbus was an Italian-Spanish navigator who sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a route to Asia but achieved fame by making landfall, instead, in the Caribbean Sea. Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy. His father was a weaver, and it is believed that Christopher entered this trade as a young man. In the mid-1470s he made his first trading voyage to the island of Khíos in …

…seeing nothing of the land which the Nina had made signals for, and observing large flocks of birds coming from the North and making for the southwest, I concluded that they were either going to land to pass the night, or abandoning the countries of the north, on account of the approaching winter, I determined to alter the course. Bibliography 1. Morison, Samuel Eliot. Admiral of the Ocean Sea. Little, 1942. 2. Encarta ‘98. “Christopher Columbus.” 1998. 3. www.columbus.org. !999.