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a second time, but, with the assistance of the wonder-stricken 

 inhabitants, reached in safety the roads of Rostello. The king, 

 though jealous of the maritime renown he was acquiring for 

 Spain, received him with distinction and dismissed him with 

 presents. Columbus arrived, in the Nina, at Palos on Friday, 

 the 15th of March, seven months and twelve days after his de- 

 parture. Alonzo Pinzon had already arrived in the Pinta, and, 

 believing Columbus to have perished in the storm, had written 

 to the court, narrating the discoveries made by the fleet, and 

 claiming for himself the merit and the recompense. 



It is not our province to relate the history of the career of 

 Columbus upon land, nor have we space so to clo. We can only 

 briefly allude to his discharge, by pilgrimages to holy shrines, 

 of the vows, which, three times out of four, had, by lot, devolved 

 upon him : to the week he spent with Marchena, and in the 

 silence of the cloister, at la Rabida ; to the princely honors he 

 received in his progress to Barcelona, whither the court had 

 gone; to his reception by the king and queen, in which Ferdi- 

 nand and Isabella rose as he approached, raised' him as he 

 kneeled to kiss their hands, and ordered him to be seated in 

 their presence. 



The Spanish sovereigns soon fitted out a new expedition ; and, 

 on the 25th of September, 1493, Columbus left the port of 

 Cadiz with seventeen vessels, five hundred sailors, soldiers, 

 citizens and servants, and one thousand colonists, three hundred 

 of whom had smuggled themselves on board. He sailed directly 

 for the Carib or Cannibal Islands, and on the 3d of November 

 arrived in their midst. He named one of them Maria-Galanta, 

 from his flag-ship ; another, Guadeloupe, from one of the shrines 

 of Spain where he had discharged a vow. He here found 

 numerous and disgusting evidences of the truth of the story 

 that these people lived on human flesh. The island which he 

 named Montserrat, in honor of the famous sanctuary of that 

 name, had been depopulated by the Caribs. He gave to the 



