The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II)

then sovereign of Genoa, and given up by him to the city of Genoa in 1821. A custodia, or monument, was erected in that city for its preservation, consisting of a marble column supporting an urn, surmounted by a bust of Columbus. The documents were deposited in the urn. These papers have been published, together with an historical memoir of Columbus, by D. Gio. Battista Spotorno, Professor of Eloquence, etc. in the University of Genoa.
    [115]: Hist. del Almirante, cap. 88.
    [116]: Señor Navarrete supposes this island to be the same at present called Santa Lucia. From the distance between it and Dominica, as stated by Fernando Columbus, it was more probably the present Martinica.
    [117]: Hist. del Almirante, cap. 88.
    [118]: Letter of Columbus from Jamaica. Journal of Porras, Navarrete, tom. i.
    [119]: Hist. del Almirante, cap. 88. Las Casas, lib. ii. cap. 5.
    [120]: Las Casas, Hist. Ind., lib. ii. cap. 3.
    [121]: Las Casas, cap. 5.
    [122]: Las Casas, cap. 5.
    [123]: Las Casas ubi sup.
    [124]: Las Casas, Hist. Ind., lib. ii. cap. 5. Hist. del Almirante, cap. 88.
    [125]: Supposed to be the Morant Keys.
    [126]: Called in some of the English maps Bonacca.
    [127]: Journal of Porras, Navarrete, tom. i.
    [128]: Las Casas, lib. ii. cap. 20. Letter of Columbus from Jamaica.
    [129]: Journal of Porras, Navarrete, Colec., tom. i.
    [130]: Las Casas, lib. ii. cap. 21. Hist. del Almirante, cap. 90.
    [131]: Hist. del Almirante, cap. 80.
    [132]: Letter from Jamaica. Navarrete, Colec., tom. i.
    [133]: Las Casas, lib ii. cap. 21. Hist. del Almirante, cap. 91.
    [134]: P. Martyr, decad. iii. lib. iv. These may have been the lime, a small and extremely acid species of the lemon.
    [135]: Las Casas, lib. ii. cap. 21. Hist. del Almirante, cap. 91. Journal of Porras.
    [136]: Hist. del Almirante, cap. 91.
    [137]: Letter from Jamaica.
    [138]: Note.—We find instances of the same kind of superstition in the work of Marco Polo, and as Columbus considered himself in the vicinity of the countries described by that traveler, he may have been influenced in this respect by his narrations. Speaking of the island of Soccotera (Socotra), Marco Polo observes: “The inhabitants deal more in sorcery and witchcraft than any other people, although forbidden by their archbishop, who excommunicates and anathematizes them for the sin. Of this, however, they make little account, and if any vessel belong to a pirate should injure one of theirs, they do not fail to lay him under a spell, so that he cannot proceed on his cruise until he has made satisfaction for the damage; and even although he should have a fair and leading wind, they have the power of causing it to change, and thereby obliging him, in spite of himself, to return to the island. They can, in like manner, cause the sea to become calm, and at their will can raise tempests, occasion shipwrecks, and produce many other extraordinary effects that need not be particularized.”—Marco Polo, Book iii. cap. 35, Eng. translation by W. Marsden.
    [139]: Las Casas, lib. ii. cap. 21. Hist. del Almirante cap. 91.
    [140]: Las Casas, lib. ii. cap. 21. Hist. del Almirante, cap. 91. Letter of Columbus from Jamaica.
    [141]: In some English maps this bay is called Almirante, or Carnabaco Bay. The channel by which Columbus entered is still called Boca del Almirante, or the mouth of the Admiral.
    [142]: Journal of Porras, Navarrete, tom. i.
    [143]: P. Martyr, decad. iii. lib. v.
    [144]: Columbus’ Letter from Jamaica.
    [145]: Hist. del Almirante, cap. 92.
    [146]: Idem.
    [147]: Letter of Columbus from Jamaica. Navarrete, Colec., tom. i. Vol. II.—12.
    [148]: Las Casas, lib. ii. cap. 23. Hist. del Almirante.
    [149]: Peter Martyr, decad. iii. lib. iv.
    [150]: Las Casas, lib. ii. cap. 23. Hist. del Almirante, cap. 92.
    [151]: Las Casas. lib. ii. cap. 23. Hist. del Almirante, cap. 92.
    [152]: It appears doubtful whether Columbus was acquainted with the exact particulars of that voyage, as they could scarcely have reached Spain previously to his sailing. Bastides had been seized in Hispaniola by Bobadilla, and was on board of that very fleet which was wrecked at the time that Columbus arrived off San Domingo. He escaped the fate that attended most of his companions, and returned to Spain, where he was rewarded by the sovereigns for his enterprise. Though some of his seamen had reached Spain previous to the sailing of Columbus, and had given a general idea of the voyage, it is doubtful whether he had transmitted his papers