The Life of Columbus

About this eBook

Author

Helps, Arthur, Sir, 1813-1875

Credits

Produced by Don Kostuch

Language

English

LoC Class

E011: History: America: America

Subject

Explorers -- Spain -- Biography

Category

Text

eBook-No.

15336

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15336

Release Date

March 12, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE LIFE OF COLUMBUS — CHIEFLY BY SIR ARTHUR HELPS K.C.B. AUTHOR OF "THE SPANISH CONQUEST IN AMERICA" "FRIENDS IN COUNCIL" ETC. — PREFACE. — CONTENTS. — CHAPTER I. Early Discoveries in the Fifteenth Century. — LEGENDS OF THE SEA. — INCITEMENTS TO DISCOVERY. — EARLY ADVENTURERS. — MEDIAEVAL MAP OF THE WORLD; THE ROMAN DOMINION. — PRINCE HENRY OF PORTUGAL; HIS MOTIVES FOR DISCOVERY. — IMPORTANT EXPEDITION — DISCOVERY OF PORTO SANTO. — MADEIRA DISCOVERED. — AFRICAN COAST EXPLORED. — BARRIER OF ROCKS. — POPULAR OBJECTIONS. — MISGIVINGS OF PRINCE HENRY; GIL EANNES. — GIL EANNES' SUCCESSFUL VOYAGE. — ANTONIO GONCALVEZ AND HIS CAPTURE OF MOORS — COMMENCEMENT OF THE SLAVE TRADE. — AIM OF THE ADVENTURERS. — CA DA MOSTO. — TRADE WITH THE ARABS. — THE SENEGAL RIVER. — KING BUDOMEL. — THE RIVER GAMBRA — FURTHER DISCOVERIES. — DEATH OF PRINCE HENRY. — HIS CHARACTER. — PRINCE HENRY'S CHARACTER. — PRESTER JOHN — BARTHOLOMEW COLUMBUS. — PASSAGE IN THE "LUSIADAS" — COVILHAM AND PAIVA. — BEMOIN, PRINCE OF JALOF. — BEMOIN'S RECEPTION AT LISBON, — BEMOIN'S FATE — PRINCE HENRY'S PERSEVERANCE. — SPIRIT OF ENTERPRISE — CHAPTER II. Early Years of Columbus. — BIRTH OF COLUMBUS — EARLY VOYAGES OF COLUMBUS. — CHARACTERISTICS OF COLUMBUS — COLUMBUS'S DESIRE FOR DISCOVERY. — COLUMBUS'S THEORY. — CARDINAL ALIACO'S "COSMOGRAPHIA." — EVIDENCES OF A WESTERN WORLD. — COLUMBUS AT PORTO SANTO. — THE BISHOP OF CEUTA; RETURN OF THE CARAVEL. — CHAPTER III. Columbus in Spain. — LETTER TO QUEEN ISABELLA. — COLUMBUS AT COURT; JUNTA OF COSMOGRAPHERS; DECISION OF THE JUNTA. — TEDIOUNESS OF COLUMBUS'S SUIT — ENCOURAGEMENT OF FRIENDS; GARCIA HERNANDEZ. — PEREZ WRITES TO THE QUEEN. — COLUMBUS'S CONDITIONS. — SANTANGLE'S ADDRESS. — SUCCESS OF THE ADDRESS. — THE AGREEMENT SETTLED. — FATE OF PROJECTORS' PLANS. — FERDINAND'S COLDNESS. — COLUMBUS'S AGREEMENT WITH THE COURT OF SPAIN. — COLUMBUS GOES TO PALOS. — ORDER TO PRESS MEN. — CHARACTER OF VESSELS AND CREWS. — CHAPTER III. First Voyage. — CANARY ISLANDS REACHED. — RUMORS OF LAND SEEN. — PLAINS OF SEAWEED. — SIGNS OF LAND. — CONSPIRACY AMONG THE MEN. — HIS DETERMINATION TO PROCEED. — SIGNS OF LAND AGAIN. — LIGHT ON SHORE. — THE PROMISED PENSION. — RELIGIOUS MOTIVIES. — GOOD FAITH OF COLUMBUS. — CHARACTER OF THE QUEEN. — LANDING IN THE NEW WORLD. — THEIR GRATITUDE. — GENERAL RECONCILATION. — THEY TAKE LEGAL POSSESSION. — CHARACTER OF THE INDIANS. — THEIR HOUSES AND IMPLEMENTS. — DISCOVERY OF TOBACCO; ITS PECULIAR EFFECTS. — GOLD ORNAMENT'S OBSERVED. — FURTHER EXPLORATIONS. — INSUBORDINATION OF MARINERS. — WRECK OF ADMIRAL'S VESSEL. — KINDNESS OF INDIAN CHIEF. — A COLONY FOUNDED. — THE ADMIRAL RETURNS. — CHAPTER V. Homeward bound. — PINZON'S EXPLANATION. — AFFRAY WITH ABORIGINES. — SEARCH FOR AMAZONIANS. — STORM ENCOUNTERED. — THE PROMISED PILGRAMAGE — NARRATIVE INCLOSED IN CASK. — THE PILGRIMS CAPTURED. — ARRIVAL IN THE TAGUS. — RECEPTION AT PALOS. — BAD FAITH OF PINZON. — SOLEMN RECEPTION. — MARKS OF APPROBATION. — GRANT BY THE POPE. — SECOND VOYAGE PLANNED. — COLONIAL DEPARTMENT. — HOME OF THE GOLD. — THE ADMIRAL'S INSTRUCTIONS. — CHAPTER VI. Second Voyage of Discovery. — ISLAND OF GUADALOUPE. — DESTRUCTION OF LA NAVIDAD. — LICENTIOUSNESS OF SETTLERS. — COLONY FOUNDED AT ISABELLA. — COLUMBUS DESPATCH TO THE COURT OF SPAIN. — CASTILIAN INTERPRETERS. — SLAVERY PROPOSED. — THE PROPOSAL REJECTED. — FORT ST. THOMAS FOUNDED. — DESIRE FOR DISCOVERY. — A COUNCIL APPOINTED. — CHAPTER VII. — ILLNESS OF COLUMBUS. — DISORGANIZATION OF THE COLONY. — OPPRESSION OF INDIANS. — TRANSMISSION OF SLAVES, — SLAUGHRTER OF NATIVES. — CUNNING CAPTURE OF INDIAN CHIEF. — GOLD TRIBUTE IMPOSED. — REMARKABLE INDIAN SCHEME. — VIEWS OF COLUMBUS ON SLAVERY. — DISTRESS OF NATIVES. — SPANISH COMMISSIONER. — PLOTS TO UNDERMINE AND RUIN THE ADMIRAL — WRETCHED VOYAGE HOME — RECEPTION AT COURT. — CHAPTER VIII. — CRIMINALS SENT TO THE INDIES. — "REPARTIMIENTOS." — XARAGUA PENETRATED; TRIBUTE IMPOSED UPON THE INDIANS. — DISCONTENT OF THE SPANISIH COLONISTS. — INSURRECTION OF ROLDAN. — FLIGHT OF GUARIONEX. — MAIOBANEX AND HIS GUEST. — THEIR CAPTURE. — CHAPTER IX. — COLUMBUS'S THIRD VOYAGE. — CAPE VERDE ISLANDS. — COLUMBUS SAILS WESTWARD. — TRINIDAD SEEN. — THE PEARL COAST. — FIRST VIEW OF AMERICAN CONTINENT — COLUMBUS MISTAKES THE CONTINENT FOR ISLANDS. — THE ADMIRAL'S REASONING ABOUT THE CONTINENT. — PECULIAR THEORY OF THE SHAPE OF THE EARTH. — GRACEFUL REARING OF NATIVES; BEAUTY OF THE LAND. — THE EARTHLY PARADISE. — ILLNESS OF COLUMBUS. — CHAPTER X. — SLAVES AND LOGWOOD; PLAN OF SLAVE BARTER. — CONTENTION WITH ROLDAN. — THE QUEEN'S ANGER; PARTIAL RELEASE OF SLAVES. — THE ADMIRAL'S ENEMIES WORKING AT COURT. — SERIOUS DISSATISFACTION. — COLUMBUS SUPERSEDED. — HARSH TREATMENT OF COLUMBUS AND HIS BROTHERS — COLUMBUS SENT HOME BY BOBADILLA IN CHAINS. — CHAPTER XI. — REACTION AT COURT. — COLUMBUS PLEADS HIS CAUSE BEFORE THE QUEEN. — THE QUEEN'S DECISION; BOBADILLA'S TYRANNY — OVANDO AS GOVERNOR — HIS INSTRUCTIONS. — ADVICE TO OVANDO ON THE DUTIES OF A GOVERNOR. — HE ARRIVES AT ST. DOMINGO. — OVANDO'S ADMINISTRATION — AN INDIAN RECEPTION. — OVANDO VISITS XARAGUA. — HIS RECEPTION BY ANACAONA. — PRETENDED TOURNAMENT; MASSACRE OF INDIAN CHIEFS. — FERDINAND'S LETTER TO COLUMBUS — NEW ENTERPRISE. — COLUMBUS REFUSED SHELTER; DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO. — JAMIAICA PASSED. — INSUBORDINATION OF CREWS. — AN INDIAN PILOT. — CAPE GUACIAS A DIOS. — EASTERLY COURSE ABANDONED; THE BETHLEHEM RIVER. — A SETTLEMENT FORMED. — ATTACK BY INDIANS. — SETTLEMENT ABANDONED. — CHAPTER XII. — SUPPLY OF PROVISIONS. — A MESSENGER SENT TO OVANDO; REMARKABLE DESPATCH TO THE SOVEREIGNS. — RELIGIOUS ENTHUSIASM. — CAPTURE OF MENDEZ; ESCAPE AND SAFE ARRIVAL. — SUSPENSE OF THE ADMIRAL; MUTINY OF PORRAS. — BAD CONDUCT OF MUTINEERS. — ECLIPSE PREDICTED BY COLUMBUS. — RESULT OF PREDICTION. — DESPATCH FROM OVANDO. — OVERTURES TO MUTINEERS. — RESORT TO ARMS. — THE MUTINEERS CONQUERED. — PORRAS A PRISONER. — CHAPTER XIII. — CONFLICTING JURISDICTION. — FALLING FORTUNES. — DEATH OF THE QUEEN. — OPPRESSION OF THE INDIANS. — PETITIONS OF COLUMBUS; INJUSTICE OF THE KING. — DEATH OF COLUMBUS — THE END. — CHISWICK PRESS:—CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO. TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.

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