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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS - LoveToKnow Article on CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | According to the life of Columbus by his son Ferdinand (a statement supported by Las Casas), young Christopher was sent to the university of Pavia, where he devoted himself to astronomy, geometry and cosmography. |
 | | This last pretension is gravely disputed, but it is perhaps not to be rejected, and we may also trace the Genoese about this time at Bristol, at Gaiway, and probably among the islands west and north of Scotland. |
 | | Quarrels, howev,~r, arose with the natives; the cacique was made prisoner, but escaped again; and before Columbus could leave the coast he had to abandon a caravel, to take the settlers on board, and to relinquish the enterprise of colonization. |
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