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THE SQUADRON SAILS -- REFITS AT CANARY ISLANDS -- HOPES AND FEARS OF THE VOYAGE -- THE DOUBTS OF THE CREW -- LAND DISCOVERED.
At last all was ready. That is to say, the fleet was so far ready that Columbus was ready to start. The vessels were small, as we think of vessels, but he was not dissatisfied. He says in the beginning of his journal, "I armed three vessels very fit for such an enterprise. " He had left Grenada as late as the twelfth of May. He had crossed Spain to Palos,(*) and in less than three months had fitted out the ships and was ready for sea.