Isabella was at last fired with zeal.

Columbus should go, and the enterprise should be hers.
It is here that the incident belongs, represented in the statue by Mr.
Mead, and that of Miss Hosmer.

The sum required for the discovery of a world was only three thousand crowns.

Two vessels were all that Columbus asked for, with the pay of their crews.

But where were three thousand crowns?
The treasury was empty, and the king was now averse to any action.