title: Christopher Columbus: Four Voyages to the New World (English, Spanish and Spanish Edition)
author:  Christopher Columbus 
description: Text: English, Spanish (translation)<br /> Original Language: Spanish
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  # Christopher Columbus, v3
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Filson Young
  
  
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  BOOK 3. THE NEW WORLD
  
  
    
  CHAPTER I. THE ENCHANTED ISLANDS
  
  
    
  CHAPTER II. THE EARTHLY PARADISE
  
  
    
  CHAPTER III. THE VOYAGE HOME
  
  
  
      This etext was produced by David Widger--widger@cecomet.net
  
  
  ## BOOK 3. THE NEW WORLD
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I. THE ENCHANTED ISLANDS
  
  
  
  
  
    
  Columbus did not intend to remain long at San Salvador. His
  
  
  landfall there, although it signified the realisation of one part of
  
  
  his dream, was only the starting-point of his explorations in the New
  
  
  World. Now that he had made good his undertaking to "discover new
  
  
  lands," he had to make good his assurance that they were full of
  
  
  wealth and would swell the revenues of the King and Queen of Spain. A
  
  
  brief survey of this first island was all he could afford time for;
  
  
  and after the first exquisite impression of the white beach, an