Washington Irving

The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus Washington Irving

Excerpt from The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, Vol. 2: To Which Are Added Those of His Companions Pointment by a mere desire to aggrandize his fimily. He felt the importance of his brother's assistance in the present critical state of the col ony, but that this cooperation would be inefficient unless it bore the stamp of high official authority. In fitct, during the few months that he had been absent, the whole island had become a scene of discord and violence in consequence of the as glect, or rather the ?agrant violation, of those rules which he had prescribed for the maintenance of its tranquillity. A brief retrospect of the te cent affairs of the colony is here necessary to explain their present confusion. It will exhibit one of the many instances in which Columbus was doomed to reap the fruits of the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.