Charles Kendall Adams

PREFACE.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.

CHAPTER I. EARLY YEARS.

CHAPTER II. ATTEMPTS TO SECURE ASSISTANCE.

CHAPTER III. THE FIRST VOYAGE.

CHAPTER IV. THE SECOND VOYAGE.

CHAPTER V. THE THIRD VOYAGE.

CHAPTER VI. THE FOURTH VOYAGE.

CHAPTER VII. LAST DAYS. DEATH. CHARACTER.

INDEX.

MAKERS OF AMERICA.

Transcriber's Notes

THE LOTTO PORTRAIT OF COLUMBUS.

“MAKERS OF AMERICA”

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

His Life and His Work

BY
CHARLES KENDALL ADAMS, LL.D.

PRESIDENT OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY

NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1892

Copyright, 1892,
By Dodd, Mead and Co.
All rights reserved.

University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.

TO
J. J. HAGERMAN,
Nobleman and Friend,
THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
By the Author.