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PREFACE • xiii
BOOK I. INTRODUCTION
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CHAP. I.—Birth, Parentage, and Early Life of Columbus
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CHAP. II.—Early Voyages of Columbus
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CHAP. III.—Progress of Discovery under Prince Henry of Portugal
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CHAP. IV.—Residence of Columbus at Lisbon.—Ideas concerning Islands in the Ocean
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CHAP. V.—Grounds on which Columbus founded his Belief of the exist ence of Undiscovered Lands in the West . . . . . .48 CHAP. VI.—Correspondence of Columbus with Paulo Toscanelli.—Events in Portugal relative to Discoveries.—Proposition of Columbus to the Portuguese Court.—Departure from Portugal
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BOOK II. CHAP. I.—Proceedings of Columbus after leaving Portugal.—His Appli cations in Spain.—Characters of Ferdinand and Isabella . . .71 CHAP. II.—Columbus at the Court of Spain
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CHAP. III.—Columbus before the Council at Salamanca
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CHAP. IV.—Further Applications at the Court of Castile.—Columbus fol lows the Court in its Campaigns CHAP. V.—Columbus at the Convent of La Rabida
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