Show A r r r R RJ I i J 1 I RM n r M t II N j tN t S St I M oJ i t By 1 I. I S. S Klein Klem W Pt wg FU OJ nr tT 7 Am I t t l. l j m f t F J 1 J 1 q l w FOR OR R three weeks Christopher Chr r Columbus headed his three small sailing ships southwestward i to the Canary Islands and then h n the little fleet set sail to the u un known v west vest st st. For FoI two wc weeks ks only the the blue waters of the deep Atlantic Atlantic At At- t. t lantic were seen Then the ships h str l an area of floating weeds vc-eds and the land-hungry land thought their goal was nigh But this was nothing but bul thai teat extensive prairie praire of floating flea ting seaweed known as the Sargasso Sa ga so Sea and and so for lor days more CC C lur UT bus went on toward what b l he e be Le to be Cip or Japan ap n. n The sailors were getting fretful Columbus deceived them dally daily by reducing the distance that he cov ered so that they would not be become be bc come panicky over o getting too to far fa faraway away from home Finally on Oct 11 li Jog logs logs- stalks of rose berries and other sure ure signs of land floated by and early the next morning land vas was sighted It le was San Salvador one of the Baham Bahamas s. s The Thc one-cent one stamp of the U U. U S S. Columbian series of 1893 pictures this momentous discovery i U V. V S. S 1893 S. 1803 I Columbus in inSight inSight Sight of oj land lc Ic deep blur blu IU 13 NIA ASk nc |