discoveries. Certain it is
that soon after his return to Spain we find him petitioning the King and
Queen for a grant of ships and men to further the enterprise; and he was
willing to wait for more than fourteen years before he obtained them.
His extravagant demands of the King and Queen concerning the rights,
titles, and percentage of all derived from the countries "he was about
to discover," can hardly be viewed in any other light than that of
positive knowledge concerning their existence.

PULCI'S PROPHECY.

LUIGI PULCI, an Italian poet. Born at Florence in 1431; died about
1487.

Men shall descry another hemisphere,
Since to one common center all things tend;
So earth, by curious mystery divine,
Well balanced hangs amid the starry spheres.
At our antipodes are cities, states,
And thronged empires ne'er divined of yore.

CHRISTOPHER, THE CHRIST-BEARER.

GEORGE PAYNE QUACKENBOS, an American teacher and educational
writer. Born in New York, 1826; died December 24, 1881.

Full of religious enthusiasm, he regarded this voyage to the western
seas as his peculiar mission, and himself--as his name, CHRISTOPHER,
imports--the appointed _Christ-bearer_, or _gospel-bearer_, to the
natives of the new lands he felt that he was destined to discover.

PLEADING WITH KINGS FOR A NEW WORLD.

The Rev. MYRON REED, a celebrated American clergyman of the present
day.

Here is Columbus. Somehow I think he is more of a man while he is
begging for ships and a crew, when he is in mid-ocean sailing to
discover America, than when he found it.

LAST DAYS OF THE VOYAGE.

The last days of the voyage of Columbus were lonesome days. He had to
depend on his own vision. I do not know what he had been--probably a
buccaneer. We know that he was to be a trader in slaves. But in spite of
what he had been and was to become, once he was great.--_Ibid._

ROLL OF THE CREWS OF THE THREE CARAVELS.

CREW OF THE SANTA MARIA.--_Admiral_, Cristoval Colon; _Master and
owner_, Juan de la Cosa of Santona; _Pilot_, Sancho Ruiz; _Boatswain_,
Maestre Diego; _Surgeon_, Maestre Alonzo of Moguer; _Assistant Surgeon_,
Maestre Juan; _Overseer_, Rodrigo Sanchez of Segovia; _Secretary_,
*Rodrigo de Escobedo[53]; _Master at Arms_, *Diego de Arana of Cordova;
_Volunteer_, *Pedro Gutierrez, (A gentleman of the King's bedchamber);
_Volunteer_, *Bachiller Bernardo de Tapia of Ledesma; _Steward_, Pedro
Terreros;