By Justin Winsor. NARRATIVE AND CRITICAL HISTORY OF AMERICA. With Bibliographical and Descriptive Essays on its Historical Sources and Authorities. Profusely illustrated with portraits, maps, facsimiles, etc. Edited by Justin Winsor, Librarian of Harvard University, with the coöperation of a Committee from the Massachusetts Historical Society, and with the aid of other learned Societies. In eight royal 8vo volumes. Each volume, net, $5.50; sheep, net, $6.50; half morocco, net, $7.50. (Sold only by subscription for the entire set.) READER'S HANDBOOK OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 16mo, $1.25. WAS SHAKESPEARE SHAPLEIGH? 16mo, rubricated parchment paper, 75 cents. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. With portrait and maps. 8vo. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & COMPANY, Boston and New York |
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
AND HOW HE RECEIVED AND
IMPARTED THE SPIRIT
OF DISCOVERY
BY
JUSTIN WINSOR
They that go down to the sea in ships,
that do business in great waters, these
see the works of the Lord and his wonders
in the deep.—Psalms, cvii. 23, 24
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1891
By JUSTIN WINSOR.
All rights reserved.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.
To FRANCIS PARKMAN, LL.D.,
The Historian of New France.
Dear Parkman:—
You and I have not followed the maritime peoples of western Europein planti