Columbus, Christopher-Continued. proposition is referred to a junto charged with all matters relating to maritime discovery, i. 70; who regard the project as visionary, i. 71; the King then refers it to his council, ib.; by whom it is condemned, i. 74; a ship is secretly sent in the direction proposed, but returns, ib.; Columbus' indignation, i. 75; loses his wife, ib.; quits Portugal, ib.; goes to Genoa and proposes his project to the government, i. 79; it is rejected, i. 80; supposed by some to have carried his plan to Venice, ib.; visits his father, ib.; applies to the Duke of Medina Sidonia, who rejects his plan, i. 81; applies to the Duke of Medina Celi, who is prevented from acceding to his plan from a fear of the court, ib.; sets out for Cordova, i. 82; arrives there, i. 91; finds it impossible to obtain a hearing, ib.; the Queen's confessor regards his plan as impossible, ib.; is received into the house of Alonzo de Quintanilla, i. 93; forms a connection with Beatrix Enriquez, ib.; introduced to the Archbishop of Toledo, i. 94; who gives him an attentive hearing, i. 95; becomes his friend, and procures him an audience of the King, i. 96; who desires the Prior of Prado to assemble astronomers, etc., to hold conference with him, i. 97; appears before the assembly at Salamanca, i. 99; arguments against his theory, i. 101; his reply, i. 108; the subject experiences procrastination and neglect, i. 110; is compelled to follow the movements of the court, i. III; his plan recommended by the Marchioness of Moya, i. 113, 129, 138; receives an invitation to return to Portugal from John II., i. 114; receives a favorable letter from Henry VII. of England, i. 115; distinguishes himself in the campaign of 1489; and is Columbus, Christopher-Continued. impressed deeply with the arrival and message of two friars from the Soldan of Egypt relative to the Holy Land, i. 117; determines to devote the profits arising from his intended discovery to the purpose of rescuing the Holy Sepulchre from the hands of the infidels, i. 118; maintains himself by designing maps and charts, i. 119; council of learned men again convened, i. 120; who pronounce the scheme vain and impossible, i. 121; receives a message from the sovereigns, i. 121; has an audience of the sovereigns, i. 122; leaves Seville in disgust, ib.; arrives in Spain and requests a little bread and water, at a convent of Franciscan friars, i. 123; the prior detains him as a guest, i. 124; and invites Garcia Fernandez to meet him, i. 125; gives him letters of introduction to Fernando de Talavera, Queen Isabella's confessor, ib.; returns to the convent of La Rabida, ib.; Alonzo Pinzon offers to pay his expenses in a renewed application to the court, i. 126; returns at the desire of the Queen, i. 129; witnesses the surrender of Granada to the Spanish arms, i. 131; negotiation with persons appointed by the sovereigns, i. 133; his propositions are considered extravagant, i. 134; are pronounced inadmissible, i. 134; lower terms are offered him, which he rejects, i. 135; the negotiation broken off, i. 136; quits Santa Fé, i. 136; Luis de St. Angel reasons with the Queen, ib.; who at last consents, i. 138; a messenger despatched to recall Columbus, i. 139; he returns to Santa Fé, i. 140; arrangement with the Spanish sovereigns, i. 141; his son appointed page to Prince Juan, i. 147; he returns to La Rabida, i. 148; preparations at the port of Palos, and apprehensions AL Columbus, Christopher-Continued. there relative to the expedition, i. 149; not a vessel can be procured, i. 150; they are at last furnished, i. 152; Columbus hoists his flag, i. 155; prologue to his voyage, i. 161; sails, i, 164; an account of the map he had prepared previous to sailing, i. 165; difficulties begin to arise, i. 165; arrives at the Canaries, i. 167; comes in sight of Mount Teneriffe, i. 168; arrives at Gomera, ib.; the news which reached him there, i. 169; alarm of his sailors on losing all sight of land, i. 171; begins to keep two reckonings, i. 172; falls in with part of a mast, i. 173; notices a variation of the needle, ib.; his opinion relative to that phenomenon, i. 174; they are visited by two birds, i. 176; terrors of the seamen, ib.; sees patches of weeds, i. 178; his situation becomes more critical, i. 182; part of his crew determine, should he refuse to return, to throw him into the sea, i. 189; false appearance of land, i. 190, 191; his crew become exceedingly clamorous, i. 195; the assertion that he capitulated with them disproved, 196; his address to the crew, i. 196; sees a light, i. 199; land discovered, i. 200; the reward for land adjudged to him, i. 200; lands on the Island of San Salvador, i. 205; which he takes possession of in the name of the Castilian sovereigns, i. 206; the surprise of the natives, i. 207; gold first discovered, i. 212; reconnoitres the island, i. 215; takes seven of the inhabitants to teach them Spanish that they might become interpreters, i. 216; discovers Santa Maria de la Concepcion, i. 218; discovers Exuma, i. 221; discovers Isabella, i. 225; hears of two islands called Cuba and Bohio, i. 227; sails in search of the former, i. 228; discovers it, i. Columbus, Christopher-Continued. 229; takes formal possession, i. 229; sends two Spaniards up the country, i. 239; coasts along the shore, i. 241; return of the Spaniards with their report, i. 243; goes in search of the supposed island of Babeque, i. 252; discovers an archipelago, to which he gives the name of the King's Garden, ib.; desertion of Alonzo Pinzon, i. 253; discovers St. Catherine, in which he finds stones veined with gold, i. 254; specimen of his style in description, i. 255; reaches what he supposes to be the eastern extremity of Asia, i. 256; discovers Hispaniola, i. 258; its transcendent appearance, i. 259; enters a harbor, to which he gives the name of St. Nicholas, i. 259; a female brought to him who wore an ornament of gold in her nose, i. 262; coasts along the shores, i. 268; is visited by a cacique, i. 270; receives a message from Guacanagari, i. 273; his ship strikes upon a sand bank in the night, i. 277: some of his crew desert in a boat, i. 278; the ship becomes a wreck, and he takes refuge on board a caravel, i. 279; receives assistance from Guacanagari, ib.; transactions with the natives, i. 282; is invited to the residence of Guacanagari, i. 284; his affectionate reception of him, i. 285; his people desire to have permission to remain in the island, i. 290; he forms the plan of a colony, and the design of constructing a fortress, i. 292; and of returning to Spain for reinforcements, i. 293; entertained in the most hospitable manner by Guacanagari, i. 295; who procures for him a great quantity of gold previous to his departure, i. 296; his address to the people, i. 300; gives a feast to the chieftains, i. 301; sails, i. 303; coasts towards the eastern end of Hispaniola, i. 309; Columbus, Christopher-Continued. meets with Pinzon, i. 310; Pinzon's apology, i. 310; account of the Ciguayens, i. 317; the first native blood shed by the whites, ib.; account of the return voyage, i. 322; encounters violent storms, i. 324; the crew draw lots who shall perform pilgrimages, i. 326; two lots fall to the Admiral, vows made, i. 327; commits an account of his voyage in a barrel to the sea, i. 329; land discovered, i. 330; which proves to be the Azores, ib.; transactions at St. Mary's, i. 332; receives supplies and a message from the governor, i. 333; attempted performance of the vow made during the storm, i. 333; the seamen taken prisoners by the rabble, headed by the governor, i. 334; the governor's disgraceful conduct, ib.; seamen liberated, i. 336; cause of the governor's conduct, i. 337; violent gales, i. 338; lots for pilgrimages again cast, i. 339; arrives off Cintra, in Portugal, i. 341; writes to the sovereigns and the king of Portugal, i. 341; is summoned by a Portuguese admiral to give an account of himself, i. 342; effect of his return at Lisbon, i. 342; receives an invitation from the king of Portugal, i. 343; interview with the king, i. 344; jealousy of the king excited, i. 346; a proposition to the king by some of his courtiers to assassinate Columbus and take advantage of his discoveries, 348; rejected by the king, ib.; disgraceful plot of the king to rob Spain of the newly discovered possessions, i. 349; his interview with the queen of Portugal, i. 350; enters the harbor of Palos, ib.; account of his reception there, i. 352; arrival of Pinzon, i. 354; receives an invitation from the sovereigns at Barcelona, i. 359; his reception on the road, i. 360; is received in a mag |