CHAPTER VII. LAST DAYS.--DEATH, CHARACTER. [1504-1506] 235-257

Columbus at Seville, 235.--His Letters, 236.--His Complaints, 237. --Americus Vespucius, 237.--Columbus’s Last Will, 238.--Death, at Valladolid, 239.--Uncertainty as to Place of Burial, 239.--Removal to Seville, 239.--Removal to San Domingo, 239.--Controversy as to Place of the Remains at present, 240.--Tradition, 240.--Removal in 1796, 241.--Discoveries in 1877, 241.--The Inscriptions, 242. --The Casket Plate, 242.--Formal Inspection, 244.--Charge of Forgery, 245.--Basis of the Charge, 246.--Investigations of Cronau in 1891, 246.--Conclusion reached, 247.--Personal Appearance of the Admiral, 248.--The Portraits, 249.--The Lotto Portrait, 250. --Final Estimate of Columbus’s Character, 251.--His Attitude toward the Moral Ideas of his Age, 252.--His Attitude toward Slavery, 253. --His Beginning of the Spanish Policy, 254.--His Powers and his Responsibilities, 255.--His Purposes, 256.--Results, 257.

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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.