Footnote 598: "Ecco i figliuoli dell' Ammiraglio de' Mosciolini, di colui che ha trovate terre di vanitá e d' inganno, per sepoltura e miseria de' gentiluomini castigliani." Vita dell' Ammiraglio, cap. lxxxiv.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 599: Major, Prince Henry the Navigator, pp. 398-401.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 600: The documents are given in Navarrete, Coleccion de viages, tom. ii. pp. 235-240; and, with accompanying narrative, in Las Casas, Hist. de las Indias, tom. ii. pp. 472-487.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 601: No better justification for the government of the brothers Columbus can be found than to contrast it with the infinitely worse state of affairs that ensued under the administrations of Bobadilla and Ovando. See below, vol. ii. pp. 442-446.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 602: Las Casas, Hist. de las Indias, tom. ii. p. 501; F. Columbus, Vita dell' Ammiraglio, cap. lxxxv. Ferdinand adds that he had often seen these fetters hanging in his father's room.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 603: It is given in full in Las Casas, op. cit. tom. ii. pp. 502-510.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 604: Herrera, Historia, dec. i. lib. iv. cap. 10.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 605: See below, vol. ii. pp. 435-446.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 606: Navarrete, Coleccion, tom. ii. pp. 280-282.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 607: The MS. volume of notes on the prophecies is in the Colombina. There is a description of it in Navarrete, tom. ii. pp. 260-273.[Back to Main Text]