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18 soon after received the news of the death of his patroness, Isabella. He was detained by illness till the spring of 1505, when he arrived, wearied and exhausted, at Segovia, to have only another courtly denial of redress, and to linger a year longer in neglect, poverty, and pain, till death gave him relief at Valladolid, on the 20th of May 1506, in the 59th year of his age. He died with a composure of mind suited to the magnanimity which distinguished his character, and with sentiments of piety becoming the sincere respeet for religion which he manifested in every oeeurrence of his life. He was grave though courteous in his deportment, eireumspect in his words and actions, irreproachable in his morals, and exemplary in his religious duties. The king was so just to his memory, notwithstanding his ingratitude during his life, that he buried him magnificently in the Cathedral of Seville, and erected a tomb over him with tho following inseription:

the meaning of which is-Columbus has given a New World to Castile and Leon.

Although Sebastian Cabot, in the serviee of Henry VII. of England, discovered Newfoundland and Labrador in June 1497, and Columbus did not touch the American continent till he visited the coast of Paria in August 1498, Columbus, however first reached Guanahani, and what may properly be denominated the Columbian Archipelago, and was really the discoverer of the New World.

The voyage of ono Antonio Sanchez from the