[CONTENTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.]

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CHAPTER I.
Sources, and the Gatherers of Them [1]

Illustrations: Manuscript of Columbus, [2]; the Genoa Custodia, [5]; Columbus's Letter to the Bank of St. George, [6]; Columbus's Annotations on the Imago Mundi, [8]; First Page, Columbus's First Letter, Latin edition (1493), [16]; Archivo de Simancas, [24].
CHAPTER II.
Biographers and Portraitists [30]

Illustrations: Page of the Giustiniani Psalter, [31]; Notes of Ferdinand Columbus on his Books, [42]; Las Casas, [48]; Roselly de Lorgues, [53]; St. Christopher, a Vignette on La Cosa's Map (1500), [62]; Earliest Engraved Likeness of Columbus in Jovius, [63]; the Florence Columbus, [65]; the Yañez Columbus, [66]; a Reproduction of the Capriolo Cut of Columbus, [67]; De Bry's Engraving of Columbus, [68]; the Bust on the Tomb at Havana, [69].
CHAPTER III.
The Ancestry and Home of Columbus [71]
CHAPTER IV.
The Uncertainties of the Early Life of Columbus [79]

Illustrations: Drawing ascribed to Columbus, [80]; Benincasa's Map (1476), [81]; Ship of the Fifteenth Century, [82].
CHAPTER V.
The Allurements of Portugal [85]

Illustrations: Part of the Laurentian Portolano, [87]; Map of Andrea Bianco, [89]; Prince Henry, the Navigator, [93]; Astrolabes of Regiomontanus, [95], [96]; Sketch Map of African Discovery, 98; Fra Mauro's World-Map, [99]; Tomb of Prince Henry at Batalha, [100]; Statue of Prince Henry at Belem, [101].
CHAPTER VI.
Columbus in Portugal [103]

Illustrations: Toscanelli's Map restored, [110]; Map of Eastern Asia, with Old and New Names, [113]; Catalan Map of Eastern Asia (1375), [114]; Marco Polo, [115]; Albertus Magnus, [120]; the Laon Globe, [123]; Oceanic Currents, [130]; Tables of Regiomontanus (1474-1506), [132]; Map of the African Coast (1478), [133]; Martin Behaim, [134].
CHAPTER VII.
Was Columbus in the North? [135]

Illustrations: Map of Olaus Magnus (1539), [136]; Map of Claudius Clavus (1427), [141]; Bordone's Map (1528), [142]; Map of Sigurd Stephanus (1570), [145].
CHAPTER VIII.
Columbus Leaves Portugal for Spain [149]

Illustrations: Portuguese Mappemonde (1490), [152]; Père Juan Perez de Marchena, [155]; University of Salamanca, [162]; Monument to Columbus at Genoa, [163]; Ptolemy's Map of Spain (1482), [165]; Cathedral of Seville, [171]; Cathedral of Cordoba, [172].
CHAPTER IX.
The Final Agreement and the First Voyage, 1492 [178]

Illustrations: Behaim's Globe (1492), [186], [187]; Doppelmayer's Reproduction of this Globe, [188], [189]; the actual America in Relation to Behaim's Geography, [190]; Ships of Columbus's Time, [192], [193]; Map of the Canary Islands, [194]; Map of the Routes of Columbus, [196]; of his track in 1492, [197]; Map of the Agonic Line, [199]; Lapis Polaris Magnes, [200]; Map of Polar Regions by Mercator (1509), [202]; Map of the Landfall of Columbus, [210]; Columbus's Armor, [211]; Maps of the Bahamas (1601 and modern), [212], [213].
CHAPTER X.
Among the Islands and the Return Voyage [218]

Illustration: Indian Beds, [222].
CHAPTER XI.
Columbus in Spain again; March To September, 1493 [243]

Illustrations: The Arms of Columbus, [250]; Pope Alexander VI., [253]; Crossbow-Maker, [258]; Clock-Maker, [260].
CHAPTER XII.
The Second Voyage, 1493-1494 [264]

Illustrations: Map of Guadaloupe, Marie Galante, and Dominica, [267]; Cannibal Islands, [269].
CHAPTER XIII.
The Second Voyage, continued, 1494 [284]

Illustrations: Mass on Shore, [298].
CHAPTER XIV.
The Second Voyage, continued, 1494-1496 [303]

Illustrations: Map of the Native Divisions of Española, [306]; Map of Spanish Settlements in Española, [321].
CHAPTER XV.
In Spain, 1496-1498. Da Gama, Vespucius, Cabot [325]

Illustrations: Ferdinand of Aragon, [328]; Bartholomew Columbus, [329]; Vasco Da Gama, [334]; Map of South Africa 1513), [335]; Earliest Representation of South American Natives, [336].
CHAPTER XVI.
The Third Voyage, 1498-1500 [347]

Illustrations: Map of the Gulf of Paria, [353]; Pre-Columbian Mappemonde, restored, [357]; Ramusio's Map of Española, [369]; La Cosa's Map (1500), [380], [381]; Ribero's Map of the Antilles (1529), [383]; Wytfliet's Cuba, [384], [385].
CHAPTER XVII.
The Degradation and Disheartenment of Columbus (1500) [388]

Illustrations: Santo Domingo, [391].
CHAPTER XVIII.
Columbus again in Spain, 1500-1502 [407]

Illustrations: First Page of the Mundus Novus, [411]; Map of the Straits of Belle Isle, [413]; Manuscript of Gaspar Cortereal, [414]; of Miguel Cortereal, [416]; the Cantino Map, [419].
CHAPTER XIX.
The Fourth Voyage, 1502-1504 [437]

Illustrations: Bellin's Map of Honduras, [443]; of Veragua, [446].
CHAPTER XX.
Columbus's Last Years. Death and Character [477]

Illustrations: House where Columbus died, [490]; Cathedral at Santo Domingo, [493]; Statue of Columbus at Santo Domingo, [495].
CHAPTER XXI.
The Descent of Columbus's Honors [513]

Illustrations: Pope Julius II., [517]; Charles the Fifth, [519]; Ruins of Diego Colon's House, [521].
APPENDIX.
The Geographical Results [529]

Illustrations: Ptolemy, [530]; Map by Donis (1482), [531]; Ruysch's Map (1508), [532]; the so-called Admiral's Map (1513), [534]; Münster's Map (1532), [535]; Title-Page of the Globus Mundi, [352]; of Eden's Treatyse of the Newe India, [537]; Vespucius, [539]; Title of the Cosmographiæ Introductio, [541]; Map in Ptolemy (1513), [544], [545]; the Tross Gores, [547]; the Hauslab Globe, [548]; the Nordenskiöld Gores, [549]; Map by Apianus (1520), [550]; Schöner's Globe (1515), [551]; Frisius's Map (1522), [552]; Peter Martyr's Map (1511), [557]; Ponce de Leon, [558]; his tracks on the Florida Coast, [559]; Ayllon's Map, [561]; Balboa, [563]; Grijalva, [566]; Globe in Schöner's Opusculum, [567]; Garay's Map of the Gulf of Mexico, [568]; Cortes's Map of the Gulf of Mexico, [569]; the Maiollo Map (1527), [570]; the Lenox Globe, [571]; Schöner's Globe (1520), [572]; Magellan, [573]; Magellan's Straits by Pizafetta, [575]; Modern Map of the Straits, [576]; Freire's Map (1546), [578]; Sylvanus's Map in Ptolemy (1511), [579]; Stobnieza's Map, [580]; the Alleged Da Vinci Sketch-Map, [582]; Reisch's Map (1515), [583]; Pomponius Mela's World-Map, [584]; Vadianus, [585]; Apianus, [586]; Schöner, [588]; Rosenthal or Nuremberg Gores, [590]; the Martyr-Oviedo Map (1534), [592], [593]; the Verrazano Map, [594]; Sketch of Agnese's Map (1536), [595]; Münster's Map (1540), [596], [597]; Michael Lok's Map (1582), [598] John White's Map, [599]; Robert Thorne's Map (1527), [600]; Sebastian Münster, [602]; House and Library of Ferdinand Columbus, [604]; Spanish Map (1527), [605]; the Nancy Globe, [606], [607]; Map of Orontius Finæus (1532), [608]; the same, reduced to Mercator's projection, [609]; Cortes, [610]; Castillo's California, [611]; Extract from an old Portolano of the northeast Coast of North America, [613]; Homem's Map (1558), [614]; Ziegler's Schondia, [615]; Ruscelli's Map (1544), 616; Carta Marina (1548), [617]; Myritius's Map (1590), [618]; Zaltière's Map (1566), [619]; Porcacchi's Map (1572), [620]; Mercator's Globe (1538), [622], [623]; Münster's America (1545), [624]; Mercator's Gores (1541), reduced to a plane projection, [625]; Sebastian Cabot's Mappemonde (1544), [626]; Medina's Map (1544), [628], [629]; Wytfliet's America (1597), [630], [631]; the Cross-Staff, [632]; the Zeni Map, [634], [635]; the Map in the Warsaw Codex (1467), [636], [637]; Mercator's America (1569), [638]; Portrait of Mercator, [639]; of Ortelius, [640]; Map by Ortelius (1570), [641]; Sebastian Cabot, [642]; Frobisher, [643]; Frobisher's Chart (1578), [644]; Francis Drake, [645]; Gilbert's Map (1576), [647]; the Back-Staff, [648]; Luke Fox's Map of the Arctic Regions (1635), [651]; Hennepin's Map of Jesso, [653]; Domina Farrer's Map (1651), [654], [655]; Buache's Theory of North American Geography (1752), [656]; Map of Bering's Straits, [657]; Map of the Northwest Passage, [659].
Index [661]

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.

[CHAPTER I.]

SOURCES, AND THE GATHERERS OF THEM.