He suffered acutely from a painful and dangerous disease, and his mind was kept uneasy and anxious by a continued succession of storms.

One of the vessels being disabled, was forced back to St.Domingo, and in the other he sailed 700 leagues with jury-masts, and reached with difficulty the port of St.Lucar in Spain, 1504.
On his arrival he received the fatal news of the death of his patroness queen Isabella, from whom he had hoped for the redress of his wrongs.
He applied to the king, who, instead of confirming the titles and honours which he had formerly conferred upon him, insulted him with the proposal of renouncing them all for a pension.
Disgusted with the ingratitude of a monarch whom he had served with fidelity and success, exhausted with the calamities which he had endured, and broken with infirmities, this great and good man breathed his last at Valladolid, a.d.1506, in the 69th year of his age.
He was buried in the cathedral at Seville, and on his tomb was engraved an epitaph commemorating his discovery of a New World.
Christobal Colon, obiit 1506, AEtat 69.
A Castilla y a Leon Neubo Mundo dio Colon.[A] Thus much for Columbus; those who are the greatest benefactors of mankind seldom meet with much gratitude from men in their lives; they must look to God for their reward, and leave future generations to do justice to their memory.
It was very unfortunate for the natives of America, that the country fell into the hands of such a cruel, covetous, and bigoted nation as the Spaniards were.

Their thirst for gold was insatiable, and the cruelties they exercised upon the natives are too horrible to recite.

After the death of Columbus, the Indians were no longer treated with gentleness, for it was his defence of the property and lives of these harmless natives that brought down upon his head such bitter hatred.

You will now look into your map and follow Columbus in some of his discoveries.