Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- CHAP. I COLUMBUS
- CHAP. II COLUMBUS AND AMERIGO VESPUCCI
- CHAP. III EARLY DISCOVERIES IN AMERICA
- CHAP. IV SPANISH DISCOVERIES, AND FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE EARTH
- CHAP. V FERNANDO CORTEZ
- CHAP. VI CONQUEST OF PERU
- CHAP. VII CONQUESTS OF THE SPANIARDS
- CHAP. VIII CONQUESTS OF THE PORTUGUESE
- CHAP. IX FERDINAND MENDEZ PINTO
- CHAP. X VOYAGES TO THE NORTH
- CHAP. XI VOYAGES TO THE NORTH
- CHAP. XII VOYAGES TO THE NORTH
- CHAP. XIII SETTLEMENTS IN THE EAST
- CHAP. XIV SETTLEMENTS IN NORTH AMERICA
- CHAP. XV ESTABLISHMENTS IN AFRICA
- CHAP. XVI VOYAGES TO THE SOUTH SEA
- CHAP. XVII VOYAGES TO THE SOUTH SEA
- CHAP. XVIII VOYAGES IN THE PACIFIC, AND DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA
- CHAP. XIX EXPEDITIONS OF THE BUCCANEERS IN THE SOUTH SEAS
- CHAP. XX VOYAGES OF PRIVATEERS AND OTHERS TO THE SOUTH SEA
- CHAP. XXI DISCOVERIES OF THE RUSSIANS
- CHAP. XXII DISCOVERIES OF THE RUSSIANS
CHAP. I - COLUMBUS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- CHAP. I COLUMBUS
- CHAP. II COLUMBUS AND AMERIGO VESPUCCI
- CHAP. III EARLY DISCOVERIES IN AMERICA
- CHAP. IV SPANISH DISCOVERIES, AND FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE EARTH
- CHAP. V FERNANDO CORTEZ
- CHAP. VI CONQUEST OF PERU
- CHAP. VII CONQUESTS OF THE SPANIARDS
- CHAP. VIII CONQUESTS OF THE PORTUGUESE
- CHAP. IX FERDINAND MENDEZ PINTO
- CHAP. X VOYAGES TO THE NORTH
- CHAP. XI VOYAGES TO THE NORTH
- CHAP. XII VOYAGES TO THE NORTH
- CHAP. XIII SETTLEMENTS IN THE EAST
- CHAP. XIV SETTLEMENTS IN NORTH AMERICA
- CHAP. XV ESTABLISHMENTS IN AFRICA
- CHAP. XVI VOYAGES TO THE SOUTH SEA
- CHAP. XVII VOYAGES TO THE SOUTH SEA
- CHAP. XVIII VOYAGES IN THE PACIFIC, AND DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA
- CHAP. XIX EXPEDITIONS OF THE BUCCANEERS IN THE SOUTH SEAS
- CHAP. XX VOYAGES OF PRIVATEERS AND OTHERS TO THE SOUTH SEA
- CHAP. XXI DISCOVERIES OF THE RUSSIANS
- CHAP. XXII DISCOVERIES OF THE RUSSIANS
Summary
The grand discovery made by Columbus caused a general transport of joy throughout Europe, and filled the popular mind with sanguine anticipations. He was immediately considered as one marked out by destiny for great achievements. The voyage across the ocean, under his auspices, was no longer looked upon with mistrust or gloomy bodings; it was regarded, on the contrary, as conducting to certain distinction and unbounded riches. The honours heaped on the admiral by his grateful sovereigns, as well as the specimens of gold and rare productions which he had brought from the newly discovered countries, all operated as incentives to the bold and the ambitious, the covetous and the needy. After the court had resolved to furnish the previous expedition, the greatest difficulty had been experienced in equipping three small vessels. That task had been imposed on the port of Palos, a place of some importance in Andalusia; but although sought to be enforced by magisterial authority, yet so many difficulties arose from the disinclination of the people to embark in what they considered a desperate enterprise, that the requisition might perhaps have never been effectually complied with, had it not been for the personal influence of the Pinzons. Martin Alonzo Pinzon, the eldest of the family, was a person of some consideration in this maritime district.
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- The History of Maritime and Inland Discovery , pp. 1 - 12Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010