One of the earliest printed copies of the letter that Christopher Columbus wrote King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain when he returned from the Americas goes on display today at the Library of Congress in Washington.
"There I found very many islands," Columbus wrote, describing the Bahamas and the Caribbean, "filled with innumerable people, and I have taken possession of them all for their Highnesses, done by proclamation and with the royal standard unfurled, and no opposition was offered to me."
