Full of religious enthusiasm, he regarded this voyage to the western seas as his peculiar mission, and himself--as his name, CHRISTOPHER, imports--the appointed _Christ-bearer_, or _gospel-bearer_, to the natives of the new lands he felt that he was destined to discover. PLEADING WITH KINGS FOR A NEW WORLD. The Rev. MYRON REED, a celebrated American clergyman of the present day. Here is Columbus. Somehow I think he is more of a man while he is begging for ships and a crew, when he is in mid-ocean sailing to discover America, than when he found it. LAST DAYS OF THE VOYAGE. The last days of the voyage of Columbus were lonesome days. He had to depend on his own vision. I do not know what he had been--probably a buccaneer. We know that he was to be a trader in slaves. But in spite of what he had been and was to become, once he was great.--_Ibid._ ROLL OF THE CREWS OF THE THREE CARAVELS. CREW OF THE SANTA MARIA.--_Admiral_, Cristoval Colon; _Master and owner_, Juan de la Cosa of Santona; _Pilot_, Sancho Ruiz; _Boatswain_, Maestre Diego; _Surgeon_, Maestre Alonzo of Moguer; _Assistant Surgeon_, Maestre Juan; _Overseer_, Rodrigo Sanchez of Segovia; _Secretary_, *Rodrigo de Escobedo[53]; _Master at Arms_, *Diego de Arana of Cordova; _Volunteer_, *Pedro Gutierrez, (A gentleman of the King's bedchamber); _Volunteer_, *Bachiller Bernardo de Tapia of Ledesma; _Steward_, Pedro Terreros; _Admiral's Servant_, Diego de Salcedo; _Page_, Pedro de Acevedo; _Interpreter_, Luis de Torres, (A converted Jew); _Seamen_, Rodrigo de Jerez, Garcia Ruiz of Santona, Pedro de Villa of Santona, Rodrigo Escobar, Francisco of Huelva, Ruy Fernandez of Huelva, Pedro Bilbao of Larrabezua, *Alonzo Velez of Seville, *Alonzo Perez Osorio; _Assayer and Silversmith_, *Castillo of Seville; _Seamen of the Santa Maria_, *Antonio of Jaen, *Alvaro Perez Osorio, *Cristoval de Alamo of Niebla, *Diego Garcia of Jerez, *Diego de Tordoya of Cabeza de Vaca, *Diego de Capilla of Almeden, *Diego of Mambles, *Diego de Mendoza, *Diego de Montalvan of Jaen, *Domingo de Bermeo, *Francisco de Godoy of Seville, *Francisco de Vergara of Seville, *Francisco of Aranda, *Francisco Henao of Avila, *Francisco Jimenes of Seville, *Gabriel Baraona of Belmonte, *Gonzalo Fernandez of Segovia, *Gonzalo Fernandez of Leon, *Guillermo Ires of Galway, *Jorge Gonzalez of Trigueros, *Juan de Cueva, *Juan Patino of La Serena, *Juan del Barco of Avila, *Pedro Carbacho of Caceres, *Pedro of Talavera, *Sebastian of Majorca, *Tallarte de Lajes (Ingles).