[220]: Las Casas, Hist. Ind., lib. ii. cap. 36.
[221]: Letter of Columbus to his son Diego, Seville, Nov. 21, 1504. Navarrete, Colec., tom. i.
[222]: Letter of Columbus to his son Diego, dated Seville, 3d Dec., 1504. Navarrete, tom. i. p. 341.
[223]: Navarrete, Colec., tom. ii. decad. 151, 152.
[224]: Herrera, Hist. Ind., decad. i. lib. v. cap. 12.
[225]: Hist. del Almirante, cap. 108. Las Casas, Hist. Ind., lib. ii. cap. 36.
[226]: Let. Seville, 13 Dec., 1504. Navarrete, v. i. p. 343.
[227]: The dying command of Isabella has been obeyed. The author of this work has seen her tomb in the royal chapel of the Cathedral of Granada, in which her remains are interred with those of Ferdinand. Their effigies, sculptured in white marble, lie side by side on a magnificent sepulchre. The altar of the chapel is adorned with bas reliefs representing the conquest and surrender of Granada.
[228]: Elogio de la Reina Catolica por D. Diego Clemencin. Illustration 19.
[229]: Letter to his son Diego, Dec. 3,1504.