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-- FROM CADIZ AT CANARY ISLANDS -- DISCOVERY OF DOMINICA AND GUADELOUPE -- SKIRMISHES WITH THE CARIBS -- PORTO RICO DISCOVERED -- HISPANIOLA -- THE FATE OF THE COLONY AT LA NAVIDAD.
There is not in history a sharper contrast, or one more dramatic, than that between the first voyage of Columbus and the second. In the first voyage, three little ships left the port of Palos, most of the men of their crews unwilling, after infinite difficulty in preparation, and in the midst of the fears of all who stayed behind.