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the interests, and happiness of his father. It is to be regretted, however that he should have suffered the whole of his father's life, previous to his discoveries (a period of about fifty-six years), to remain in obscurity. He appears to have wished to cast a cloud over it, and only to have presented his father to the reader after he had rendered himself illustrious by his actions, and his history had become in a manner identified with the history of the world. His work, however, is an invaluable document, entitled to great faith, and is the corner-stone of the history of the American Continent.
Galley, from the tomb of Fernando Columbus, at Seville.
No. IV. AGE
OF
COLUMBUS.
As the date I have assigned for the birth of Columbus, makes him about ten years older than he is generally represented, at the time of his discoveries, it is proper to state precisely my authority. In the valuable manuscript chronicle of the reign of the Catholic sovereigns, written by Andres Bernaldes, the curate of Los Palacios, there is a long tract on the subject of the discoveries of Columbus : it concludes with these words : Ma, i么 en Valladolid,
el ano de 1506, en el mes de Mayo,
in senectute
bona, de edad
70 anos, poco mas 没 menas. (He died in Valladolid in the year 1506, in the month of May, in a good old age, being seventy years old, a little more