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Excerpt from The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, and the Origin of the North American Indians As they increased and multiplied in the different countries Which they inhabited, several bodies were sent out to seek their for tune in strange lands, where they made settlements, when they found that they were fine and delightful countries, which promised them great felicity. Others by reason of civil and domestic quar rels, were driven abroad and passed into distant regions far beyond the encroachments of an enemy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.