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his own cost.
He died, & c , &c.
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Bestow in charity a Paternoster, and an
Ave Maria." He ordered that in the midst of this stone there should be carved an Indian canoe, as given him by the king for armorial bearings in memorial of his voy age from Jamaica to Hispaniola, and above it should be engraved in large let ters, the word “ CANOA.” He enjoined upon his heirs to be loyal to the admi ral (Don Diego Columbus), and his lady, and gave them much ghostly counsel, mingled with pious benedictions.
As an heir-loom in his family, he bequeathed
his library, consisting of a few volumes, which accompanied him in his wander ings ; viz. “ The Art of Holy Dying, by Erasmus ; A Sermon of the same author, in Spanish ; The Lingua and the Colloquies of the same ; The History of Josephus ; The Moral Philosophy of Aristotle ; The Book of the Holy Land ; A Book called the Contemplation of the Passion of our Saviour ; A Tract on the Vengeance of the Death of Agamemnon, and several other short treatises." This curious and characteristic testament is in the archives of the Duke of Veragua in Madrid.