ate--Columbus Sails Westward
--Discovers Honduras, and Coasts Along Its Shores
--The Search for Gold--Colony Attempted and Abandoned
--The Vessels Become Unseaworthy--Refuge at
Jamaica--Mutiny Led by the Brothers Porras--Messages
to San Domingo--The Eclipse--Arrival of Relief
--Columbus Returns to San Domingo, and to Spain

CHAPTER XIII.
Two Sad Years--Isabella's Death--Columbus at Seville--
His Illness--Letters to the King--journeys to Segovia
--Salamanca and Valladolid--His Suit There--Philip
and Juana--Columbus Executes His Will--Dies--His
Burial and the Removal of His Body--His Portraits--
His Character

APPENDIX A

APPENDIX B

APPENDIX C

THE LIFE OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.

CHAPTER I. -- EARLY LIFE OF COLUMBUS.

HIS BIRTH AND BIRTH-PLACE--HIS EARLY EDUCATION--HIS EXPERIENCE AT
SEA--HIS MARRIAGE AND RESIDENCE IN LISBON--HIS PLANS FOR THE DISCOVERY
OF A WESTWARD PASSAGE TO THE INDIES.

Christopher Columbus was born in the Republic of Genoa. The honor of his
birth-place has been claimed by many villages in that Republic, and the
house in which he was born cannot be now pointed out with certainty. But
the best authorities agree that the children and the grown people of
the world have never been mistaken when they have said: "America was
discovered in 1492 by Christopher Columbus, a native of Genoa."

His name, and that of his family, is always written Colombo, in the
Italian papers which refer to them, for more than one hundred years
before his time. In Spain it was always written Colon; in France it is
written as Colomb; while in England it has always kept its Latin form,
Columbus. It has frequently been said that he himself assumed this form,
because Columba is the Latin word for "Dove," with a fanciful feeling
that, in carrying Christian light to the West, he had taken the mission
of the dove. Thus, he had first found land where men thought there was
ocean, and he was the messenger of the Holy Spirit to those who sat in
darkness. It has also been assumed that he took the name of Christopher,
"the Christ-bearer," for similar reasons. But there is no doubt that
he was baptized "Christopher," and that the family name had long been
Columbo. The coincidences of name are but two more in a calendar in
which poetry delights, and of which history is full.

Christopher Columbus was the oldest son of Dominico Colombo and Suz