Columbus had sailed the ocean blue and discovered America and he was being brought back to Spain when pirates overtook the ship he was on. The rest of the crew was set off in rowboats. Your job is to work out which pirate kidnapped him and kept him on board or why Columbus pretended to be kidnapped.
Reading level: 6
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Overview:
It's Columbus's third voyage. He'd already sailed the ocean blue and discovered America (although he still thinks he went to pa