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Title: A century of discovery; biographical sketches of the Portuguese and Spanish navigators from Prince Henry to Pizarro;
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Vogel, Theodore, 1838-
Subjects: Discoveries in geography Explorers
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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d this brilliantreception by the Princes corresponded to the homage whichthe proud nobility and all classes of the people offered him.We may rejoice fervently that the Admiral was thus recom-pensed for his many years of disappointment and suffering,and we cannot grudge him the proud pleasure of seeing himself,though of lowly birth, raised to the highest honours. Still wecannot help anticipating a reaction after such extraordinaryfavour, and feel that at the latest it must ensue as soon as itwas found out that the newly-discovered land was not India,the way to which might yet be found by the Portuguese. Forall this immoderate rejoicing arose from the delusion that, if itAvas not actual!) India that had been discovered, India couldat any rate be very easily reached from the lands found byColumbus, and there was a most discreditable pleasure in theminds of the Spaniards at the thought of the disappointmentof the hated Portuguese. The enthusiastic descriptions of Columbus of the riches of
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ENTRY OF COLUMBUS INTO BARCELONA. Christopher Columbus. 185 the lands he had discovered aroused the whole people; thesanguine man reckoned with the greatest confidence howmany millions of gold the colonists he had left behind wouldhave collected before his return, and drew such exaggerated.and enticing pictures of the ease with which treasures mightbe collected that a perfect gold fever took possession of thewhole nation, and it was not without justice that a charge ofdeception was subsequently brought against him. The Government contemplated colonising in a great measurethe discovered lands, and consented to all the projects formedhy the Admiral with that view, while they appointed JuanRodriquez de Fonseca, afterwards Bishop of Badajoz, tosuperintend the necessary supplies and to conclude the con-tracts. As early as the 8th of May Columbus left Barcelona andbetook himself to Andalusia, where all the preparations werecarried forward with energy. Seventeen ships, including threelarge m

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