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THE TRUE STORY OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS CALLED
THE GREAT ADMIRAL
BY ELBRIDGE S. {Streeter} BROOKS

[This was orginally done on the 400th Anniversary of 1492] [As was
the great Columbian Exposition in Chicago] [Interesting how our
heroes have all be de-canonizied in the of Political Correctitude]
Comments by Michael S. Hart

PREFACE.
This "True Story of Christopher Columbus" is offered and inscribed to
the boys and girls of America as the opening volume in a series

especially designed for their reading, and to be called "Children's Lives
of Great Men." In this series the place of honor, or rather of position, is
given to Columbus the Admiral, because had it not been for him and
for his pluck and faith and perseverance there might have been no
young Americans, such as we know to-day, to read or care about the
world's great men.
Columbus led the American advance; he discovered the New World; he
left a record of persistence in spite of discouragement and of triumph
over all obstacles, that has been the inspiration and guide for
Americans ever since his day, and that has led them to work on in faith
and hope until the end they strove for was won.
"The True Story of Christopher Columbus" will be followed by the
"true story" of others who have left names for us to honor and revere,
who have made the world better because they lived, and who have
helped to make and to develop American freedom, strength and
progress.
It will be the endeavor to have all these presented in the simple,
straightforward, earnest way that appeals to children, and shows how
the hero can be the man, and the man the hero. E. S. B.

THE TRUE STORY OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

CHAPTER I.
BOY WITH AN IDEA.
Men who do great things are men we all like to read about. This is the
story of Christopher Columbus, the man who discovered America. He
lived four hundred years ago. When he was a little boy he lived in
Genoa. It was a beautiful city in the northwestern part of the country
called Italy. The mountains were behind it; the sea was in front of it,
and it was so beautiful a place that the people who lived there called it
"Genoa the Superb." Christopher Columbus was born in this beautiful
city of Genoa in the year 1446, at number 27 Ponticello Street. He was
a bright little fellow with a fresh-looking face, a clear eye and golden
hair. His father's name was Domenico Columbus; his mother's name
was Susanna. His father was a wool-comber. He cleaned and
straightened out the snarled-up wool that was cut from the sheep so as

to make it ready to be woven into cloth.
Christopher helped his father do this when he grew strong enough, but
he went to school, too, and learned to read and write and to draw maps
and charts. These charts were maps of the sea, to show the sailors
where they could steer without running on the rocks and sand, and how
to sail safely from one country to another.
This world was not as big then as it is now--or, should say, people did
not know it was as big. Most of the lands that Columbus had studied
about in school, and most of the people he had heard about, were in
Europe and parts of Asia and Africa. The city of Genoa where
Columbus lived was a very busy and a very rich city. It was on the
Mediterranean Sea, and many of the people who lived there were
sailors who went in their ships on voyages to distant lands. They sailed
to