pg. 15 American Literature Textbook, Christopher Columbus

The Journal of the first voyge to America, was about Christopher Columbus arriving to a new land. He arrived at the Cape of the Island on Sunday, October 21st, 1492. He descibes this new place to him in much detail. Columbus mentioned how the land sourrounding him was cleared, as soon as his ships landed, all of the people flead to escape with there valuables and goods. Reading just that made me realize different tribes and people, must have had invasions, were all of there goods were stolen and valubles were taken from them. Chrisopher Columbus describes these lands beautifully, in my head i can imagine all the detialed descriptions he says in this story. He describes what it smells like, what it looks like, all the trees, animals, and how it looked deserted. He mentions how some of the natives went up to him and his people and Christopher gave them hawk bells and glass beads. In return for what they gave them, the natives gave them water. Columbus then traveled around the island in search for the king, in order to see if he could gather any gold. After that , he planned to sail to a very large island called Cipango. Traveling to these islands, he was searching to find spices and gold.