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Excerpt from Christophe Colomb Whatever were the defects of his mental constitution, the finger of the historian will find it difficult to point to a single blemish in his moral character. His corre spondence breathes the sentiment of devoted loyalty to his Sovereigns. His conduct habitually displayed the utmost solicitude for the interests of his followers. His dealings were regulated by the nicest principles of honour and justice. His last communication to the Sovereigns from the Indies remonstrates against the use of violent measures, in order to extract gold from the natives, as a thing equally scandalous and impolitic. The grand Object to which he dedicated himself seemed to expand his whole soul, and raised it above the petty shifts and artifices by which great ends are sometimes sought to be compassed. There are some men in whom rare virtues have been closely allied, if not to positive vice, to degrading weakness. Prescott's History of Ferdinand and Isabella.viii notice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.