Josh

I was diving in the Atlantic Ocean off the Virginia coast when I found my treasure chest on the bottom of the reef with tons of algae and fish around and on. It was blue with all kinds patterns and different colors. I pulled it out and left to go back to Virginia Coast on my yacht.

// This painting was painted by Geatano Guadagnini in the 1800's-1860's.// He decided to paint this portrait because he thought columbus was a very important man.

//[|columbus journal]After sunset steered their original course west and sailed twelve miles an hour till two hours after midnight, going ninety miles, which are twenty-two leagues and a half; and as the Pinta was the swiftest sailer, and kept ahead of the Admiral, she discovered land and made the signals which had been ordered. The land was first seen by a sailor called Rodrigo de Triana, although the Admiral at ten o'clock that evening standing on the quarter-deck saw a light, but so small a body that he could not affirm it to be land; calling to Pero Gutierrez, groom of the King's wardrobe, he told him he saw a light, and bid him look that way, which he did and saw it; he did the same to Rodrigo Sanchez of Segovia, whom the King and Queen had sent with the squadron as comptroller, but he was unable to see it from his situation. The Admiral again perceived it once or twice, appearing like the light of a wax candle moving up and down, which some thought an indication of land.

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This [|letter] was written by the English merchant John Day to an unidentified Spanish 'Lord Grand Admiral' who is believed to have been Christopher Columbus. Written between December 1497 and January 1498, it contains valuable information about John Cabot's voyages.
 * John Day's letter.**