other return to San Domingo, and
he complied. He begged his brother to submit to the authority of the
sovereigns, and Bartholomew immediately did so. On his arrival in San
Domingo he was also put in irons, as his brother Diego had been, and was
confined on board a caravel. As soon as a set of charges could be made
up to send to Spain with Columbus, the vessels, with the prisoners, set
sail.

The master of the caravel, Martin, was profoundly grieved by the severe
treatment to which the great navigator was subjected. He would gladly
have taken off his irons, but Columbus would not consent. "I was
commanded by the king and queen," he said, "to submit to whatever
Bobadilla should order in their name. He has put these chains on me by
their authority. I will wear them until the king and queen bid me take
them off. I will preserve them afterwards as relics and memorials of the
reward of my services." His son, Fernando, who tells this story, says
that he did so, that they were always hanging in his cabinet, and that
he asked that they might be buried with him when he died.

From this expression of Fernando Columbus, there has arisen, what Mr.
Harrisse calls, a "pure legend," that the chains were placed in the
coffin of Columbus. Mr. Harrisse shows good reason for thinking that
this was not so. "Although disposed to believe that, in a moment of
just indignation, Columbus expressed the wish that these tokens of the
ingratitude of which he had been the victim should be buried, with him,
I do not believe that they were ever placed in his coffin."

It will thus be seen that the third voyage added to the knowledge of
the civilized world the information which Columbus had gained regarding
Paria and the island of Trinidad. For other purposes of discovery, it
was fruitless.

CHAPTER XI. -- SPAIN, 1500, 1501.

A CORDIAL RECEPTION IN SPAIN--COLUMBUS FAVORABLY RECEIVED AT COURT--NEW
INTEREST IN GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERY--HIS PLANS FOR THE REDEMPTION OF THE
HOLY SEPULCHRE--PREPARATIONS FOR A FOURTH EXPEDITION.

Columbus was right in insisting on wearing his chains. They became
rather an ornament than a disgrace. So soon as it was announced in Spain
that the great discoverer had been so treated by Bobadilla, a wave of
popular indignation swept through the people and reached the court.
Ferdinand and Isabella, themselves, had never intended to give such
powers to their favorite, that he should disgrace a man so much his
superior.

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