This very thought may have comforted him; but happily he had other sources of consolation in the pious aspirations which never deserted him.
We have come now to the end of Columbus's administration of the Indies.
Whatever we may think of his general policy, we cannot but regret his removal at the present time, when there appeared some chance of solidity in his government: though we must honestly admit, that the Catholic Sovereigns, with such evidence as they had before them, were far from wrong in recalling him, had it been done in a manner worthy of his and of their greatness..