r confessor, should write to
her highness. He did so; and the result was favourable. The queen sent for
him, heard what he had to say, and in consequence remitted money to
Columbus to enable him to come to Court and renew his suit.

COLUMBUS'S CONDITIONS.

He attended the court again; his negotiations were resumed, but were again
broken off on the ground of the largeness of the conditions which he asked
for. His opponents said that these conditions were too large if he
succeeded, and if he should not succeed and the conditions should come to
nothing, they thought that there was an air of trifling in granting such
conditions at all. And, indeed, they wore very large; namely, that he was
to be made an admiral at once, to be appointed viceroy of the countries he
should discover, and to have an eighth of the profits of the expedition.
The only probable way of accounting for the extent of these demands and
his perseverance in making them, even to the risk of total failure, is
that the discovering of the Indies was but a step in his mind to greater
undertakings, as they seemed to him, which he had in view, of going to
Jerusalem with an army and making another crusade. For Columbus carried
the chivalrous ideas of the twelfth century into the somewhat self-seeking
fifteenth. The negotiation, however, failed a second time, and Columbus
resolved again to go to France, when Alonzo de Quintanilla and Juan Perez
contrived to obtain a hearing for the great adventurer from Cardinal
Mendoza, who was pleased with him. Columbus then offered, in order to meet
the objections of his opponents, to pay an eighth part of the expense of
the expedition. Still nothing was done.

SANTANGLE'S ADDRESS.

And now, finally, Columbus determined to go to France, and indeed had
actually set off one day in January of the year 1492, when Luis de
Santangel, receiver of the ecclesiastical revenues of the crown of Aragon,
a person much devoted to the plans of Columbus, addressed the queen with
all the energy that a man throws into his words when he is aware that it
is his last time for speaking in favour of a thing which he has much at
heart. He told her that he wondered that, as she always had a lofty mind
for great things, it should be wanting to her on this occasion. He
endeavoured to pique her jealousy as a monarch, by suggesting that the
enterprise might fall into the hands of other princes. Then he said
something in behalf of Columbus himself,