ed the young man from Seville--one by the hands of
Amerigo Vespucci. A licence to ride on muleback was granted him on the
23rd of February 1505; and in the following May he was removed to the
court at Segovia, and thence again to Valladolid. On the landing of
Philip and Juana at Coruna (25th of April 1506), although "much
oppressed with the gout and troubled to see himself put by his rights,"
he is known to have sent off the _adelantado_ to pay them his duty and
to assure them that he was yet able to do them extraordinary service.
The last documentary note of him is contained in a final codicil to the
will of 1498, made at Valladolid on the 19th of May 1506. By this the
old will is confirmed; the _mayorazgo_ is bequeathed to his son Diego
and his heirs male, failing these to Fernando, his second son, and
failing these to the heirs male of Bartholomew; only in case of the
extinction of the male line, direct or collateral, is it to descend to
the females of the family; and those into whose hands it may fall are
never to diminish it, but always to increase and ennoble it by all means
possible. The head of the house is to sign himself "The Admiral." A
tenth of the annual income is to be set aside yearly for distribution
among the poor relations of the house. A chapel is founded and endowed
for the saying of masses. Beatriz Enriquez is left to the care of the
young admiral. Among other legacies is one of "half a mark of silver to
a Jew who used to live at the gate of the Jewry, in Lisbon." The codicil
was written and signed with the admiral's own hand. Next day (20th of
May 1506) he died.

After the funeral ceremonies at Valladolid, Columbus's remains were
transferred to the Carthusian monastery of Santa Maria de las Cuevas,
Seville, where the bones of his son Diego, the second admiral, were also
laid. Exhumed in 1542, the bodies of both father and son were taken over
sea to Hispaniola and interred in the cathedral of San Domingo. In
1795-1796, on the cession of that island to the French, the relics were
re-exhumed and transferred to the cathedral of Havana, whence, after the
Spanish-American War of 1898 and the loss of Cuba, they were finally
removed to Seville cathedral, where they remain. The present heir and
representative of Columbus belongs to the Larreategui family,
descendants of the discoverer through the female line, and retains the
titles of admiral and duke of Veragua.

[Illustration: Columbus Cipher.

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