Christopher Columbus First Encounters with the Native People.
On February 15, 1943 Christopher Columbus felt the pleasure and victory of writing a letter to the King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella , and the people of Spain recounting his first encounter with the Native people. Columbus wrote the letter in prospects of gaining gratitude and praise from the King and Queen who supported his venture by allowing him to go and giving him money and supply. Colombus gave a very illustrated description of the land the and the Natives. Columbus had big ideas and a clear plan for what he thought Spain had gained by the "discovery of the land".
I write you this, by which you shall know that in the thirty-three days I passed over to the Indies with the fleet in which the most illustrious King and Queen, our lords, gave me: where I found very many islands peopled with inhabitants beyond number." Columbus thanked the King and Queen for being so gracious to support his trip and let them know it was a success. "Since thus redeemer has given to our most illustrious King and Queen, and their famous kingdoms, this victory in so high a matter." .
"The lands thereof are high, and in it are very many ranges of hills, and most beautiful in a thousand shapes, and all accessible, full of trees of thousand kinds, so lofty that they seem to reach the sky. And I am assured that they never lose their foliage; as may be imagined, since I saw them as green and as beautiful as they are in Spain during May.".
Columbus also wrote the letter in hopes of persuading the King and Queen that the land he discovered was rich and profitable so they could possibly make lots of money off of it. He went on to say how wondrous this new land was and how there were various fruits and plants. Columbus described this place as being very resourceful. "There are wonderful pine-groves, and very large plains of verdure, and their id honey and many kinds of birds, and many various fruits.
