With the Admiral of the Ocean Sea (Classic Reprint): A Narrative of the First Voyage to the Western World, Drawn Mainly From the Diary of Christopher ... of Christopher Columbus (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Reseña del editor

IN preparing this narrative we have preferred to deal only with the accounts left by Colum bus himself and those directly associated with him in the enterprise which plnced him among the true Immortals, OUR effort has been, by following as closely as might be the language of the actual participants, to present a living picture of the events connected with that stupendous achievement. If in so doing we have lost somewhat of the dignity of graver methods, and departed in sundry particulars from those presentations of the great exploit which are deservedly familiar, our apology is that we have adopted the errors of the actors themselves. It has seemed well to the critical spirit of our day to question the atcuracy of Columbus in more than one respect; but that he and those who were his fellow-workers by land and sea did not f.1ithfully relate what passed in connection with the discovery of the Indies, we have not the temerity to assume. Their ''

Table of Contents

CONTENTS ; ·; CHAPTER PAGE; l THE FATHER SUPERIOR'S SAILOR GUEST II; II THE SHREWD IDEA OF THE YOUNG PHYSICIAN 20; III NOTABJ~E M]SSJO~ OF THE EX-PRIVATEERS~A~ 32; ]V THE FAMOUS :MULE OF JUANTHE HARD-HEADED 42; V BARGAINING FOR A VORLO · 53; VI "I, THE Knw!" ArD "I, THE QlJEE~~"; Vil TIlE HEAVY HAND OF JlTAN DE rE~ALOSA; VIIJ THE SEA-BREEZE OUTSIDE THE BAR ; ]X I~ THE PATH OF '1R~ SUN 100; X VHAT TIlE MOO)l DI,scLOSED IT3; XI UNDER THE BAl'NER OF THE GRTm~ CROSS 128; XIJ AMONG THE ISLES OF INO · 140; XJlI IN SEARCH OF FAR CATHAY · 153; XlV THE EMBASSY TO VHOi( IT MIGH1' CONCERN 166; XV THE EvrL DEED OF MARTI~ ALONZO 180; XV] ALPHA AND Ol'llEGA · · · · ]93 CHAPTER; COXTENTS; XVII HIS UNCLAD MAJESTY; XVII I A GLOOMY CHRISnJAS ·; XIX THE FIRST FROXTIERS:IEN; XX THE RETUR~ OF THE" PIXTA"; PAGE; 207; 219; 233; 247 ; XXI NORTHEAST BY EAST, FOR SPAIN AND hDIORTALITY; ·; XXI I "THERE WERE NO TEMPESTS IN THE IXDIES" 279; XXIII THE GRACES OF CIVILIZATION 290; XXI