Christopher Columbus

Translator’s Preface

Contents

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Christopher Columbus

Chapter I Portuguese Voyages of Discovery—The Youth of Columbus—His Arrival at Lisbon

Chapter II Columbus’ Scheme Rejected in Lisbon—He Goes to Madrid and Has an Interview with Ferdinand and Isabella, after which he Endures Bitter Disappointments

Chapter III Three Vessels Fitted Out for Columbus—The First Voyage of Discovery is made from Palos, August 3, 1492—Columbus on the Open Sea

Chapter IV Ocean Phenomena, Unknown to Columbus and His Crew, Increase the Fear of the Latter

Chapter V “Land, Land!”

Chapter VI Columbus Discovers Several Islands, among them Guanahani, Cuba, and Haiti—Traffic with the Natives

Chapter VII Prince Guakanahari—The Admiral’s Vessel Wrecked—Forty-three Men Remain Behind—The Return Voyage Begins

Chapter VIII The Return Voyage—Storm on the Way—Arrival at the Azores, Lisbon, and Palos

Chapter IX Columbus’ Second Journey in 1493—Several Islands Discovered—The Spaniards Find their Fort Destroyed and the Colonists Dead

Chapter X New Discoveries—Columbus in Great Danger—Uprising of the Natives

Chapter XI The Natives are Subjugated—Columbus is Traduced in Spain—He Returns to Europe and Suffers Many Hardships on the Voyage

Chapter XII Columbus is Graciously Received by Ferdinand and Isabella—His Enemies Unable to Shake their Confidence in Him—The Third Voyage in 1498—Discovery of the Island of Trinidad at the Mouth of the Orinoco

Chapter XIII Wretched Condition of the Colony—Vasco da Gama Sails around the Cape of Good Hope to the East Indies—Ojeda’s Undertaking—Cabral Discovers Brazil

Chapter XIV Columbus Again Calumniated at the Spanish Court—Bobadilla is Ordered to San Domingo on a Tour of Investigation—He Sends Columbus Back to Spain in Fetters—Columbus Vindicated by his Sovereigns—Ovando Sails to the New Countries with a Fleet of Thirty-two Vessels

Chapter XV Ovando Calls the Audacious Bobadilla to Account—Columbus Undertakes his Fourth Voyage in 1502

Chapter XVI Columbus Vainly Attempts to Find the Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

Chapter XVII Columbus Abandons the Hope of Discovering a Passage to the Pacific and Returns to Jamaica, where his Vessels are Exposed to Great Danger—Two Boats are Sent to Haiti for Help

Chapter XVIII Conspiracy against Columbus at Jamaica—He Returns to Spain and Vainly Seeks Reinstatement—He Dies at Valladolid in 1506

Chapter XIX Diego, Columbus’ Son, Secures the Rights coming to him from his Father—The Spaniards Extend their Authority in Central America and Rule Cruelly—Ponce de Leon’s Discovery of Florida

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