OVALLE*S HISTORICAL RELATION OF CHILE. I4I 



a Gook, who was villain enough to do it, they had not found any one to execute fo 

 barbarous a command. When Columbus faw Iiimfelf put in chains by his own fervant, 

 it is faid, that fiiaking his head, he pronounced thefe words, full of refentment for his 

 ufage : " Thus the world rewards thofe who ferve it ; this is the recompence that men 

 give to thofe who truil in them. Have the utmoft endeavours of my fervices ended in 

 this ? Have all my dangers and fufferings deferved no more ? Let me be buried with 

 thefe irons, to Ihew that God alone knows how to reward and bellow favours, of which 

 he does never repent ; for the world pays in words and promifes, and at laft deceives: 

 and Hes." 



Having faid this, the fhip fet fail ; and as foon as he came to Spain, Their Majefties, 

 when they were informed of the prifon of the admiral, were much concerned ; for by 

 no means had that been their intention. They fent for him to come before them ; but 

 his tears and fighs were fuch, that in a great while he could not fpeak ; at laft he faid, 

 affuring Their Majefties of his great zeal for Their royal fervice, which had always been 

 his guide, that if he had failed in any thing, it was not out of mahce, nor on purpofe, 

 but becaufe he knew no better. 



Their Majefties comforted him, and particularly the queen, who favoured him moft ; 

 and after fome time, in which the truth of the matter was made out, they ordered,' that 

 all that the commander Bobadilla had confifcated of the eftate of the admiral and his 

 brothers, ftiould be reftored to them ; as alfo, that the capitulation with them Ihould be 

 obferved, as to their privileges and exemptions. After this, the admiral returned a 

 fourth time to the Indies, in an honourable way ; and employing himfelf in new dif- 

 coveries, he arrived upon the coaft of Terra Firma of America, the fecond of Novem- 

 ber 1 502, and coafting along by Cubija, arrived at the port ; which, becaufe it appeared 

 fo good a one, and the country fo beautiful, well cultivated, and full of houfes, that 

 it looked like a garden, he called Puerto Belle, or the Fine Port, having difcovered 

 other iflands in the way, and endured very bad ftorms. At laft, returning back by 

 fome of thofe places which he had difcovered, taking, as it were, his leave of them, 

 and returning to Spain, to order there a better fettlement of affairs, he died at Valla- 

 dolid, where the court was, making a very Chriftian end, and giving great figns of his 

 predeftination. 



CHAP. VII. — lifter the Death of Cohmibuss the Cajiilians purfue the Difcovery and 



Conqueji of the New World* ^ 



AMONG thofe who accompanied the admiral in his firft difeovery, there was one 

 Vincent Yanes Pinzon, who being a rich man, fet out four velTek at his own charge. 

 He, at his return to Spain, {ei fail from the fame port of Balos upon new difcoveries ; 

 he firft came to the illand of St. Jago, which is one of the Cape Verd iflands : he fet 

 fail from thence the thirteenth of January in the year 1500, and was the firft who 

 paffed the equinodial line, by the north fea, and difcovered Cape St. Auguftin, which 

 he called the Cape of Confolation, taking poffeflion of it for the crown of Caftile j 

 from thence he found the river Maragnon, which is thirty leagues over, and fome fay 

 more at its entrance, the frefti water running forty leagues into the fea ; then coafting 

 towards Paria, he found another river very large, though not fo broad as Maragnon : 

 they took up frefli water out of it, twenty leagues at fea. He difcovered in all a coaft 

 of fix hundred leagues to Paria, and loft two ihips in a terrible ftorm that he endured. 



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