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DA GAMA, VESPUCIUS, CABOT.
1496. Columbus arrives at Cadiz,
"The wretched men crawled forth," as Irving tells us of their debarkation, "emaciated by the diseases of the colony and the hardships of the voyage, who carried in their yellow countenances, says an old writer, a mockery of that gold which had been the object of their search, and who