title: 1492: The Real Story of Christopher Columbus and the Search for the New World
author: Karl A. Pirnat
description: K. A. Pirnat was born in upstate New York and grew up in Yonkers, Westchester County. A graduate of Pace University, he has made his home in Greenwich, Connecticut, for the last thirty-two years. Now retired, in his spare time he enjoys photography, golf, writing, and tennis.
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  Project Gutenberg's Christopher Columbus, Volume 2, by Filson Young
  
  
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  Title: Christopher Columbus, Volume 2 And The New World Of His Discovery, A
  Narrative
  
  
  Author: Filson Young
  
  
  Release Date: December 5, 2004 [EBook #4109]
  
  
  Language: English
  
  
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  START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, VOLUME 2
  
  
  
  
  
  Produced by David Widger
  
  
  
  
  
  ` CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS  
    
  AND THE NEW WORLD OF HIS DISCOVERY  
    
  A NARRATIVE BY FILSON YOUNG  
    
    
  Volume 2  
  `
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER IX
  
  
  WANDERINGS WITH AN IDEA
  
  
  The man to whom Columbus proposed to address his request for means with which
  to make a voyage of discovery was no less a person than the new King of
  Portugal. Columbus was n