Excerpt from Stories of Discovery: As Told by Discoverers The boys turned over the books together, and the older boys showed the new ones what parts of N avar rete were translated in the Stories of the Sea. Navar rete is a Spanish editor of learning and skill, who about fifty or sixty years ago edited very carefully the original journals of Columbus, which by great good fortune are preserved in Spain; not, I think, in the original manu scripts, but in perfectly authentic copies. 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.