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Columbus Book Report

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August
The month is August and we are just setting sail. It is quite early in the morning it is cool and breezy. I am on the boat with Columbus and we are traveling very slowly. One of our ships is already damaged. Two weeks had gone by and we had not made it far. Some people are getting frustrated that we are not moving and we have not made it all that far yet. On Friday 24 we got moving again and made it quite far that day.
September
The month is now September we gathered a lot of things so that four the next four weeks we will not go hungry. Today we completely lost sight of land. I don’t feel Columbus is telling us how far we actually made it in a day I think he is just making the numbers smaller than they really are. On Thursday September, …show more content…

It rained so hard a lot of my things got soaked. My fellow crew is still grumbling and are not happy at all how long it is taking to get their but yes I wish I could go home and see my family but I don’t want to make myself miserable so I am trying to stay positive. On October 12 we saw naked people so that gave us even more reason to believe that we had found land. We were so happy we had finally found land that everyone was so happy to finally have found land that we all praised the lord. The people on the island are very friendly and do not have any weapons other than little spears. I was talking with some natives when I noticed Columbus looking around I walked over to him and asked him what he was looking for and he said that he was just looking for some gold and told me that all he has found is what the natives wear with their clothing. On October 19, I heard Columbus talking with someone asking them wear they think we should go next because he was not sure where to go. When I heard all of this it made me really nervous and I wondered why I even came. I went to lay down because I did not feel very good. The next morning one of the crew members came and looked at me and said that I was very sick and that I need to stay laying down and not move. When it came to October 28 we saw so many beautiful things that day and that was the day that I did not feel sick

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