But at length Columbus secured enough money to fit out a little fleet.
[Sidenote: Columbus reaches America, 1492.

_Higginson, 35-37; Eggleston, 3-5_.] 5.

The Voyage, 1492 .-- Columbus left Spain in August, 1492, and, refitting at the Canaries, sailed westward into the Sea of Darkness.

At ten o'clock in the evening of October 20, 1492, looking out into the night, he saw a light in the distance.

The fleet was soon stopped.