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A CORDIAL RECEPTION IN SPAIN -- COLUMBUS FAVORABLY RECEIVED AT COURT -- NEW INTEREST IN GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERY -- HIS PLANS FOR THE REDEMPTION OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE -- PREPARATIONS FOR A FOURTH EXPEDITION.
Columbus was right in insisting on wearing his chains. They became rather an ornament than a disgrace. So soon as it was announced in Spain that the great discoverer had been so treated by Bobadilla, a wave of popular indignation swept through the people and reached the court. Ferdinand and Isabella, themselves, had never intended to give such powers to their favorite, that he should disgrace a man so much his superior.