, 506

The voyage across the Atlantic 506

Columbus not allowed to stop at San Domingo 507

His arrival at Cape Honduras 508

Cape Gracias a Dios, and the coast of Veragua 509

Fruitless search for the strait of Malacca 510

Futile attempt to make a settlement in Veragua 511

Columbus is shipwrecked on the coast of Jamaica; shameful
conduct of Ovando 512

Columbus's last return to Spain 513

His death at Valladolid, May 20, 1506 513

"Nuevo Mundo;" arms of Ferdinand Columbus 514, 515

When Columbus died, the fact that a New World had been
discovered by him had not yet begun to dawn upon his mind,
or upon the mind of any voyager or any writer 515, 516

ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Portrait of the author _Frontispiece_

View and ground-plan of Seneca-Iroquois long house
_reduced from Morgan's Houses and House-Life of the
American Aborigines_ 66

View, cross-section, and ground-plan of Mandan round
house, _ditto_ 80

Ground-plan of Pueblo Hungo Pavie, _ditto_ 86

Restoration of Pueblo Hungo Pavie, _ditto_ 88

Restoration of Pueblo Bonito, _ditto_ 90

Ground-plan of Pueblo Penasca Blanca, _ditto_ 92

Ground-plan of so-called "House of the Nuns" at Uxmal,
_ditto_ 133

Map of the East Bygd, or eastern settlement of the Northmen
in Greenland, _reduced from Rafn's Antiquitates
Americanae_ 160, 161

Ruins of the church at Kakortok, _from Major's Voyages of
the Zeni, published by the Hakluyt Society_ 222

Zeno Map, cir. 1400, _ditto_ 232, 233

Map of the World according to Claudius Ptolemy, cir. A. D.
150, _an abridged sketch after a map in Bunbury's History of
Ancient Geography_