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ed "a thing more divine than
human." No other man ever rose to such a pinnacle of
fame so suddenly; and no other man from such a height
ever dropped out of sight so quickly. His three later
voyages were miserable failures; a pitiful record of
misfortunesblunderscrueltiesmoral delinquencies
quarrelsand impotent complainings. They added nothing
to the fund of human knowledgeor to his own. On the
fourth voyage he was groping about to find the River
Gangesthe great Khan of Chinaand the earthly paradise.
His two subsequent years of disappointment and sickness
Christopher Columbus and His Monument by Various355
and poverty were wretchedness personified. Other and
more competent men took up the work of discoveryand in
thirteen years after the finding of a western route to India
had been announcedthe name and personality of
Columbus had almost passed from the memory of men. He
died at ValladolidMay 201506; and outside of a small
circle of relativeshis body was committed to the earth with
as little notice and ceremony as that of an unknown beggar
on its way to the potter's field. Yet the Spanish court was in
the town at the time. Peter Martyr was therewriting long
letters of news and gossip; an [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]yilai:
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