Bequest of Leved. Barbour Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. CHAP. I.- Birth, Parentage, and Early Life of Colum- 12 18 concerning Islands in the Ocean 33 CHAP. II.-Early Voyages of Columbus CHAP. III.- Progress of Discovery under Prince Henry CHAP. IV. - Residence of Columbus at Lisbon. - Ideas CHAP. V. - Grounds on which Columbus founded his Belief of the Existence of Undiscovered Lands in CHAP. VI. Correspondence of Columbus with Paulo Toscanelli.-Events in Portugal relative to Discov- CHAP. I.- Proceedings of Columbus after leaving Por- CHAP. II.-Columbus at the Court of Spain. 42 54 69 78 CHAP. III.- Columbus before the Council at Salamanca 84 CHAP. IV. Further Applications at the Court of Cas- tile. Columbus follows the Court in its Campaigns 94 CHAP. V. Columbus at the Convent of La Rabida - CHAP. VI.— Application to the Court at the time of the CHAP. VII. - Arrangement with the Spanish Sover- PAGE 110 118 CHAP. VIII. - Columbus at the Port of Palos. - - Prep- BOOK III. CHAP. I.-Departure of Columbus on his First Voyage 131 of the Variation of the Needle CHAP. III. Continuation of the Voyage.- Various - of Land. CHAP. I. First Landing of Columbus in the New CHAP. II. Cruise among the Bahama Islands CHAP. IV. Search after the supposed Island of Ba- CHAP. VI. Discovery of Hispaniola CHAP. IX. - Transactions with the Natives Regulation of the Fortress of La Navidad. 249 BOOK V. CHAP. I. Coasting towards the Eastern End of His- |