[49] The cross-staff had not then come into use, and it was never of much service in low latitudes.
[50] It was also resolved to establish in the city of Washington a Latin-American Memorial Library, wherein should be collected all the historical, geographical, and literary works, maps, and manuscripts, and official documents relating to the history and civilization of America, such library to be solemnly dedicated on the day on which the United States celebrates the fourth centennial of the discovery of America.
[51] Published by A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago.
[52] Copyright, 1892, by Harper & Brothers.
[53] Note.—Those marked * were left behind, in the fort, at La Navidad, and perished there.
[54] Note.—The names of the crew are on the Madrid monument.
[55] Randolph Rogers, an American sculptor of eminence, was born in Waterloo, N. Y., in 1825; died at Rome, in the same State, aged sixty-seven, January 14, 1892.
[56] Mr. George Sumner, a painstaking investigator, states that after diligent search he is unable to find any other inscription to the memory of Columbus in the whole of Spain.
At Valladolid, where he died, and where his body lay for some years, there is none, so far as he could discover; neither is there any trace of any at the Cartuja, near Seville, to which his body was afterward transferred, and in which his brother was buried. It is (he writes in 1871) a striking confirmation of the reproach of negligence, in regard to the memory of this great man, that, in this solitary inscription in old Spain, the date of his death should be inaccurately given.—Major's "Letters of Columbus," 1871.
(The Madrid and Barcelona statues were erected in 1885 and 1888 respectively.)—S. C. W.