arrows and threw javelins at them.
But in most other places the natives were very friendly.

Columbus thought this land was a part of the east coast of Asia, and
he could not understand why he did not find cities such as Marco Polo
had described.

Columbus then sailed to Hispaniola, where he planted a colony, of which
he was made governor. It was not an easy matter to govern this island,
because of the jealousies and quarrels of the Spaniards. At length
Columbus returned to Spain, ill and discouraged.

Columbus made a third voyage in 1498, during which he sailed along
the coast of Brazil, and discovered Trinidad Island. Here his ships
encountered currents of fresh water which flowed with great force into
the ocean. This led Columbus to think that so large a river must flow
across a great continent, and strengthened his opinion that the land
was a part of the great continent of Asia.

[Illustration: Map Showing how Columbus Discovered America.]

After sailing farther north along the Pearl Coast, which was so called
because of the pearls found there, he returned to Hispaniola. Here
he found the Spaniards engaged in an Indian war, and quarreling among
themselves. Some officials became jealous of him, bound him with
chains, and sent him back to Spain a prisoner. Ferdinand and Isabella
were much displeased at this treatment of Columbus, and set him free.

A fourth voyage was made by Columbus in 1502, during which he explored
the coast of Honduras in search of a strait leading to the Indian Ocean.
In this venture he was unsuccessful. On his return to Spain he found
his friend Queen Isabella very ill, and nineteen days after his arrival
she died.

After Isabella's death the king treated Columbus cruelly and
ungratefully. The people had become jealous of him, and his last days
were spent in poverty and distress. He never knew that he had
discovered a new continent, but supposed that he had found India.

Seven years after his death the king repented of his ingratitude, and
caused the remains of Columbus to be removed from the little monastery
in Valladolid to a monastery in Seville, where a magnificent monument
was erected to his memory. In 1536 his bones were removed to the
Cathedral of San Domingo in Hispaniola, and later they were taken to
the cathedral in Havana.

When the United States took possession of Cuba, the Spanish
disinterred the bones of Columbus again and carried them to Spain,
placing them in the cathe