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I came to serve you at the age of 28 and now I have not a hair on me that is not white, and my body is infirm and exhausted. All that was left to me and my brothers has been taken away and sold, even to the cloak that I wore, without hearing or trial, to my great dishonor.

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Christopher Columbus
Died: 1506
Died: May 19
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Franciscan Tertiary
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Cristoforo Colombo
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I went to sea from the most tender age and have continued in a sea life to this day. Whoever gives himself up to this art wants to know the secrets of Nature here below. It is more than forty years that I have been thus engaged. Wherever any one has sailed, there I have sailed.
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But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.
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He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls to paradise.
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I'm telling you that India is that way, now set my course.
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For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
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Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals continued our course in the morning and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.
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I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses.
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