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Show Coluuliut IVaa Not tlio tint. It was nt Mibon that Columbus fint planned his vo) age, Uut loug beforo, vhen LlsUm was a Uourlsldug Artb city, Intelligent anl si Undid, lMrisi relates re-lates tliat un oxpiMltlou was sont out frum its port totxiloro tho dark and unknown occ in. Tito commanders w ere I rothera ku jv u ns Iho Almagrttrlns, or tho Wandering Irothurs. Tliey must havo set nail I foro tho year 115a They crcwHcd 1hoAtlatdlc.it is sal J, visited nnknown Islands anl dhcoured tuw lands After a weary voyago of man) months thwy returned in softly, A strtt t was ntmed aft r them in Moorish Lisbon, called the street of tho Alma gniritu PoMibly the attempt might luno ?en renewed, an I a MoorUh cit might hao sprung un iu Cub.) or HUpanlola, at lMill vdolj lila or Now York Hut soon tho conquering Christians took LIhIjou and checked its udtnucoiu knowkdgo Tor many centuries it wis git tn up to inr and chivalry At length It revied tho Morlu instincts of trado and commerce. com-merce. Lisbon becoiuo tho etmtir of dl3coery,uul Columbus learncnl in Its traditions irliaps tho story of tho Al wagrnHn- ,v - |