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sound guide in nautical matters; while the monograph of Mr. Elton, which apparently did not promise much at first, since the author has followed some untrustworthy leaders as regards his facts, proved to be full of a fragrant charm produced by the writer's knowledge of and interest in sub-tropical vegetation; and it is delightfully filled with the names of gums and spices. To Mr. Vignaud I owe special thanks, not only for the benefits of his research and of his admirable works on Columbus, but also for personal help and encouragement. Equally cordial thanks are due to Mr. John Boyd Thacher, whose work, giving as it does so large a selection of the Columbus documents both in facsimile, transliteration, and translation, is of the greatest service to every English writer on the subject of Columbus. It is the more to be regretted, since the documentary part of Mr. Thacher's work is so excellent, that in his critical studies he should have seemed to ignore some of the more important results of modern research. I am further particularly indebted to Mr. Thacher and to his publishers, Messrs. Putnam's Sons, for permission to reproduce certain illustrations in his work, and to avail myself also of his copies and translations of original Spanish and Italian documents. I have to thank Commendatore Guido Biagi, the keeper of the Laurentian Library in Florence, for his very kind help and letters of introduction to Italian librarians; Mr. Raymond Beazley, of Merton College, Oxford, for his most helpful correspondence; and Lord Dunraven for so kindly bringing, in the interests of my readers, his practical knowledge of navigation and seamanship to bear on the first voyage of Columbus. Finally my work has been helped and made possible by many intimate and personal kindnesses which, although they are not specified, are not the less deeply acknowledged. September 1906. CONTENTS THE INNER LIGHT I THE STREAM OF THE WORLD II THE HOME IN GENOA III YOUNG CHRISTOPHER IV DOMENICO V SEA THOUGHTS VI IN PORTUGAL VII ADVENTURES BODILY AND SPIRITUAL VIII THE FIRE KINDLES IX WANDERINGS WITH AN IDEA X OUR LADY OF LA RABIDA XI THE CONSENT OF SPAIN XII THE PREPARATIONS AT PALOS XIII EVENTS OF THE FIRST VOYAGE XIV LANDFALL THE NEW WORLD I THE ENCHANTED ISLAND
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