Celebrated In Christopher Columbus's Letter To The Queen

After reading Christopher Columbus’s words in a letter that was directly sent to Queen Elizabeth herself, I can truly tell how prideful he actually was. Thus pondering to myself is this man truly fit to be celebrated as much as he really is. Yes I am aware that he landed on the coast of the new world, but the land that he founded was San Salvador which is nowhere near the States. In his letter to the Queen, he tells her about his findings on the new land that he founded and other golds and riches that came on the land and especially wrote about the Indians that inhabited. In this letter you can definitely tell that he is flabbergasted and showed off in most of what he found and I will show you this in three main ways. The First way was when he was writing in regard to the Islands that he landed on and explored. In mentioning these Islands Columbus with blatant disregard throws away the original names of the Islands and …show more content…
Columbus didn’t push back these crazy remarks, but loved them and never denied them. He states this occurrence by saying “At present, those I bring with me are still of the opinion that I come from Heaven, for all the intercourse which they have had with me. They were the first to announce this wherever I went, and the others went running from house to house, and to the neighbouring towns, with loud cries of, "Come! Come! See the men from Heaven!" So all came, men and women alike, when their minds were set at rest concerning us, not one, small or great, remaining behind, and they all brought something to eat and drink, which they gave with extraordinary affection.” As he said that they all brought something to eat and drink, which they gave with extraordinary affection, this ultimately shows me that he loved this extraordinary amount of attention and in the end his pride grew way too