Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. COLUMBUS AND HIS DISCOVERY. 1492-1500. F.af.i.y Experiences?The Compact ? Embarkation At Palos ? Tlib Voyage?Discovery Op Land?Unfavorable Comparison With The Paradise Of Marco Polo?Cruise Among The Islands?One Nature Everywhere?Desertion Op Pinzon?Wreck Op The Santa Maria ?The Fortress Of La Navtdad Erected?Return To Spain?Rights Of Civilization?The Papal Bull Of Pahtition?Fonseca Appointed Superintendent Of The Indies?Second Voyage?Navidad In Ruins ?Isabela Established ? Discontent Of The Colonists ? Explora- Tions Of The Interior?Coasting Cuba, And Discovery Of Jamaica ?Failure Op Columbus As Governor?Intercourse With Spain? Destruction Of The Indians?Government Of The Indies?Diego And Bartolome Colon?Charges Against The Admiral?Commission Of Inquiry Appointed?Second Return To Spain?Third Voyage? Trinidad Discovered ? Santo Domingo Founded ? The Roldan Rebellion ? Francisco De Bobadilla Appointed To Supersede Columbus?Arbitrary And Iniquitous Conduct Of Bobadilla ? Columbus Sent In Chains To Spain. In the developments of progress the agent, however subordinate to the event, cannot fail to command our intelligent curiosity. The fact is less one with us than the factor. The instrument is nearer us in pulsating humanity than the event, which is the result of inexorable causations wholly beyond our knowledge. That America could not have remained much longer hidden from the civilized world does not lessen the vivid interest which attaches to the man Columbus, as he plods along the dusty highway toward Huelva, leading by the hand his boy, and bearing upon his shoulders the more immediate destinies of nations. Nor are we indifferent to the agencies that evolved the agent. Every signal success springs from a fortuitous conjunction of talent and opportunity; fr…
