CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. Early Discoveries in the Fifteenth Century
CHAPTER II. Early Years of Columbus
CHAPTER III. Columbus in Spain
CHAPTER IV. First Voyage
CHAPTER V. Homeward bound
CHAPTER VI. Second Voyage of Discovery
CHAPTER VII. Illness; Further Discoveries; Plots against Columbus
CHAPTER VIII. Criminals sent to the Indies; Repartimientos; Insurrection
CHAPTER IX. Columbus's Third Voyage
CHAPTER X. Arrival at Hispaniola; Bad Treatment by Bobadlilla
CHAPTER XI. Columbus pleads his Cause at Court; New Enterprise; Ovando
CHAPTER XII. Remarkable Despatch; Mutiny; Eclipse predicted, and its influence; Mutiny quelled
CHAPTER XIII. Falling Fortunes: Conclusion