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The Life of Christopher Columbus from his own Letters and Journals

CHAPTER XIII
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These three are fairly explained, and I think that no others can be mustered to disturb the concord between this track and the journal.
Rev.Mr.Cronan, in his recent voyage, discovered a cave at Watling's island, where were many skeletons of the natives.

It is thought that a study of the bones in these skeletons will give some new ethnological information as to the race which Columbus found, which is now, thanks to Spanish cruelty, entirely extinct.
APPENDIX B.
The letter to the Lady Juana, which gives Columbus's own statement of the indignities put upon him in San Domingo, is written in his most crabbed Spanish.

He never wrote the Spanish language accurately, and the letter, as printed from his own manuscript, is even curious in its infelicities.

It is so striking an illustration of the character of the man that we print here an abstract of it, with some passages translated directly from his own language.
Columbus writes, towards the end of the year 1500, to the former nurse of Don Juan, an account of the treatment he has received.

"If my complaint of the world is new, its method of abuse is very old," he says.


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