5. Read these lines of poetry: Behind him lay the gray Azores, Behind the Gates of Hercules; Before him not the ghost of shores, Before him only shoreless seas. The good mate said: "Now must we pray, For lo! the very stars are gone. Brave Admiral, speak, what shall I say?" Who is the "Brave Admiral" in these lines? A. Abraham Lincoln B. Langston Hughes C. George Washington D. Christopher Columbus