Columbus, Christopher, born, 1; translated, 3; anecdotes of boyhood, 5; goes to Pavia, 9; becomes sailor, 11; engages in Neapolitan expedition, 12; deceives sailors or posterity, 13; does not arrive in Portugal, 16; does arrive there, 18; marries, 19; makes maps, 20; lives at Porto Santo, 21; goes to Iceland or elsewhere, 28; talks to King John, 35; goes to Spain, 38; deposited with Quintanilla, 41; meets Scientific Congress, 43; goes to Convent of Rabida, 49; meets committee on exploration, 54; starts for France, 56; goes to Palos, 61; sails on first voyage, 67; keeps false reckoning, 72; discovers San Salvador, 89; sails for Spain, 97; wrecked, 102; founds colony, 105; sees Mermaids, 110; displays seamanship, 115; arrives at Azores, 116; arrives at Palos, 125; flattens egg, 135; sails on second voyage, 138; discovers Dominica, 141; returns to Spain, 191; loses popularity, 196; sails on third voyage, 200; discovers Trinidad, 204; invents ingenious theory, 205; arrives at Hispaniola, 208; arrested, 228; sent to Spain, 229; arrives in Spain, 230; sails on fourth voyage, 237; reaches Honduras, 240; searches for Panama Canal, 240; founds colony at Veragua, 243; sails away, 250; reaches Jamaica, 251; manages lunar eclipse, 258; reaches Hispaniola, 262; returns to Spain, 264; dies, 268; is extensively buried, 268; perhaps is a sun-myth, 269; character, 284. Columbus, Diego, born, 4; Governor of Isabella, 162; sent to Spain to wait for opening in Connecticut, 177; returns to Hispaniola, 187; arrested by Bobadilla, 227. Columbus, Dominico, combs wool, 3. Compass, variation of, 55. Congress of Salamanca, 46; its tediousness, 45. Correo, Pedro, 21; he winks, 25; is talked to death, 34. Enriquez, Beatrix, loves not wisely but too well, 41; is mentioned in Columbus’s will, 267. Ericson, Eliphalet B., discovers America, 281. Eclipse, story of, 258. Egg, story of, 135. Ferdinand, King of Aragon, 40. Guacanagari, his affection for Columbus, 101; his suspicious leg, 150; falls extensively in love, 152; protects Spaniards, 175. Isabella, Queen of Castile, 41. John, King of Portugal, 29; his dishonorable conduct, 34. La Navidad, founded, 105; destroyed, 148. Ledesma, Pedro, swims ashore, 249. Marchena, Juan Perez de, prior of a convent, 50; makes a night of it with Columbus, 51. Margarite, rebels, 174. Mendez, Diego, tries to reach Hispaniola from Jamaica, 252; succeeds, 254. Mendoza, Cardinal de, gives dinner, 135. Mexica, De, rebels, 219. Ojeda, Alonzo de, is a just man, 158; captures Caonabo, 175; arrives at Xaragua, 215; his interview with Roldan, 216.