A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 03 / Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

by Robert Kerr

SECTION II.

Of his first coming to Portugal, and the motives of his proposing to discover the West Indies.

SECTION III.

The Admiral, disgusted by the procedure of the King of Portugal, in regard to the proposed discovery, offers his services to the court of Spain.

SECTION IV. Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus, in which he actually discovered the New World[1].

[1] By error of the press, a considerable part of this Section is marked in the running title as Section IV., and the next is numbered Section VI., so that, numerically only, Section V. is entirely omitted.

SECTION VI. Second Voyage of Columbus to the West Indies.

SECTION VII. Account of the antiquities, ceremonies, and religion of the natives of Hispaniola, collected by F. Roman, by order of the Admiral.

SECTION VIII. The Admiral returns to Spain from his second voyage.

SECTION IX. Account of the Admirals Third Voyage, during which he discovered the continent of Paria; with the occurrences to his arrival in Hispaniola.