![]() ![]() Rather, the Old World determined what men saw in the New and what they did with it. The discovery of America opened a new world, full of new things and new possibilities for those with eyes to see them. Only idiots escape entirely from the world that the past bequeaths. We need not deride Columbus' reluctance to give up the world that he knew from books. "I am the saddest man in the world," he wrote, "because I do not recognize them." Cruising through the Caribbean, enchanted by the beauty and variety of what he saw, Columbus assumed that the strange plants and trees were strange only because he was insufficiently versed in the writings of men who did know them. It seemed to be a question not so much of giving names to new lands as of finding the proper old names, and the same was true of the things that the new lands contained. His discoveries posed for him, as for others, a problem of identification. And in 1513 it was still assumed that the ancient writers had had a wider experience than those who came after them.Ĭolumbus himself had made that assumption. Men, confronted with things they do not recognize, turn to the writings of those who have had a wider experience. How, the learned man asked them, did they know that the ferocious animal was a tiger? They answered "that they knewe it by the spottes, fiercenesse, agilitie, and such other markes and tokens whereby auncient writers have described the Tyger." It was a good answer. Listening to their story was Peter Martyr, member of the King's Council of the Indies and possessor of an insatiable curiosity about the new land that Spain was uncovering in the west. They called it a tiger, although there were no tigers in Spain and none of the men had ever seen one before. When they returned to Spain to tell what they had seen, it was not a simple matter to find words for everything.įor example, they had killed a large and ferocious wild animal. On their way, however, they saw a good many things they had not been looking for and were not familiar with. They had been looking for it-they knew it existed-and, familiar as they were with oceans, they had no difficulty in recognizing it when they saw it. We are supported entirely by the fees paid to tour the ships.In the year 1513, a group of men led by Vasco Núñez de Balboa marched across the Isthmus of Panama and discovered the Pacific Ocean. Sanger Ships LLC receives no funds from government agencies or private foundations. Pinta is available for private parties and charters.īoth The Niña and Pinta will be touring together as a new and enhanced ‘sailing museum’, for the purpose of educating the public and school children on the ‘caravel’, a Portuguese ship used by Columbus and many early explorers to discover the world. She is a larger version of the archetypal caravel and offers larger deck space for walk-aboard tours and has a 40 ft air conditioned main cabin down below with seating. Pinta was recently built in Brazil to accompany the Nina on all of her travels. We are a floating museum, and we visit ports all over the Western Hemisphere. That ship was last heard of in 1501, but the new Niña has a different mission. Columbus sailed the tiny ship over 25,000 miles. The Niña is a replica of the ship on which Columbus sailed across the Atlantic on his three voyages of discovery to the new world beginning in 1492. The Niña - Most Historically Accurate Columbus Replica Ship Ever Built The most historically accurate replica of a Columbus Ship ever built, and our newer Pinta.ĭeck length - 65', Beam - 18', Draft - 7' Welcome to Sanger Ships LLC and our two Columbus replica ships - our original Niña, ![]()
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