It is only necessary for us to say that in his third voyage, in 1498, he touched on Trinidad, and saw the coast of South America, which he supposed to be the region of the Terrestrial Paradise.

This was placed by the mediaeval maps at the extreme east of the Old World.

Only on his fourth voyage, in 1502, did he actually touch the mainland, coasting along the shores of Central America in the neighbourhood of Panama.

After many disappointments, he died, 20th May 1506, at Valladolid, believing, as far as we can judge, to the day of his death, that what he had discovered was what he set out to seek--a westward route to the Indies, though his proud epitaph indicates the contrary:-- A Castilla y a Leon | To Castille and to Leon Nuevo mondo dio Colon.

| A NEW WORLD gave Colon.[1] [Footnote 1: Columbus's Spanish name was Cristoval Colon.] To this day his error is enshrined in the name we give to the Windward and Antilles Islands--West Indies: in other words, the Indies reached by the westward route.