So far as we know, the only contemporary references in a printed book to the new discoveries during the progress of the second voyage, or in the interval previous to the undertaking of the third voyage, in the spring of 1498, are these: The _Das Narrenschiff_ (Ship of Fools) of Sebastian Brant, a satire on the follies of society, published at Basle in 1494,[206] and reprinted in Latin in 1497, 1498, and in French in 1497, 1498, and 1499,[207] has a brief mention of the land previously unknown, until Ferdinand discovered innumerable people in the great Spanish ocean. Zacharias Lilio, in his _De origine et laudibus scientiarum_, Florence, 1496,[208] has two allusions. In 1497 Fedia Inghirami, keeper of the Vatican Archives, delivered a funeral oration on Prince John, son of Ferdinand and Isabella, and made a reference to the New World. The little book was probably printed in Rome. There is also a reference in the _Cosmographia_ of Antonius Nebrissensis, printed in 1498.[209] [Illustration: SEBASTIAN BRANT. Fac-simile of cut in Reusner’s _Icones_, Strasburg, 1590.] =E.= THIRD VOYAGE (_May_ 30, 1498, _to Nov._ 20, 1500).—Our knowledge of this voyage is derived at first hand from two letters of Columbus himself, both of which are printed by Navarrete, and by Major, with a translation. The first is addressed to the sovereigns, and follows a copy in Las Casas’s hand, in the Archives of the Duque del Infantado. The other is addressed to the nurse of Prince John, and follows a copy in the Muñoz Collection in the Real Academia at Madrid, collated with a copy in the Columbus Collection at Genoa, printed by Spotorno.[210] [Illustration: MAP OF COLUMBUS’ FOUR VOYAGES (WESTERN PART). A reproduction of the map in Charton’s _Voyageurs_, iii. 179.] [Illustration: MAP OF COLUMBUS’ FOUR VOYAGES (EASTERN PART.) A reproduction of the map in Charton’s _Voyageurs_, iii. 178.] =F.= FOURTH VOYAGE (_May_ 9, 1502, _to Nov._ 7, 1504).—While at Jamaica Columbus wrote to Ferdinand and Isabella a wild, despondent letter,[211] suggestive of alienation of mind. It brings the story of the voyage down only to July 7, 1503, leaving four months unrecorded. Pinelo says it was printed in the Spanish, as he wrote it; but no such print is known.[212] Navarrete found in the King’s private library, at Madrid, a manuscript transcript of it, written, apparently, about the middle of the sixteenth century; and this he printed in his _Coleccion_.[213] It was translated into Italian by Costanzo Bayuera, of Brescia, and published at Venice, in 1505, as _Copia de la lettera per Colombo mandata_.[214] Cavaliere Morelli, the librarian of St. Mark’s, reprinted it, with comments, at Bassano, in 1810, as _Lettera rarissima di Cristoforo Colombo_.[215] Navarrete prints two other accounts of this voyage,—one by Diego Porras;[216] the other by Diego Mendez, given in his last will, preserved in the Archives of the Duke of Veraguas.[217]