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The Life of Christopher Columbus from his own Letters and Journals

CHAPTER II
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He was now the confessor of Isabella, as Juan Perez, the friendly prior, had been before.

Columbus, however, was proud and firm.

He would not yield to the terms prepared by the archbishop.

He preferred to break off the negotiation, and again retired from court.

He determined, as he had before, to lay his plans before the King of France.
Spain would have lost the honor and the reward of the great discovery, as Portugal and Genoa had lost them, but for Luis de St.Angel, and the queen herself.


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