Then the King went to Laredo to meet his daughter Juana,
who was now Queen of Castile. With him went all of importance.
Segovia became a dull and somewhat hostile water
where rode at last anchor the ship of the Admiral.
CHAPTER XLV
DON FERNANDO met me at the door. "He is wandering
--he thinks he is in Cordova with my mother."
He came from that and said he would get up and
go to mass. Persuaded to lie quiet, he talked of his will,
drawn before his third voyage, and said that he would have
it read to him, and make a codicil.
This will. It ran at length through preamble and body.
"In the name of the most Holy Trinity who revealed it
to me that I could sail westward across Ocean-Sea--
"As it pleased God, in the year one thousand, four hundred
and ninety-two, I discovered the Continent of the Indies
and many islands. I returned to Cadiz to their Majesties
who allowed my going a second voyage, and in this God gave
me victory over the island of Hispaniola, which covers six
hundred leagues, and I conquered it and made it tributary;
and I discovered many islands dwelled in by Caribals or
eaters of men's flesh, and also Jamaica which I named
Santiago, and three hundred and thirty leagues of Continent
from south to west--"
He recited his rights, dignities, tithes, emoluments,--
"whereto I have the sacred word of the Sovereigns.
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