Columbus and Other Heroes of American Discovery

by N. D'Anvers

Weighed nigh four thousand castillanos—so

They tell me—weigh’d him down into the abysm.

The hurricane of the latitude on him fell,

The seas of our discovering over-roll

Him and his gold; the frailer caravel,

With what was mine, came happily to the shore.

There was a glimmering of God’s hand.”

COLUMBUS IN CHAINS.

Soon after the conclusion of his fourth and last voyage, Columbus died at Valladolid in poverty and disgrace, leaving others—many of whom he had himself trained to be able navigators—to reap the fruits of his labors.