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-- ISABELLA'S DEATH -- COLUMBUS AT SEVILLE -- HIS ILLNESS -- LETTERS TO THE KING -- JOURNEYS TO SEGOVIA, SALAMANCA, AND VALLADOLID -- HIS SUIT THERE -- PHILIP AND JUANA -- COLUMBUS EXECUTES HIS WILL -- DIES -- HIS BURIAL AND THE REMOVAL OF HIS BODY -- HIS PORTRAITS -- HIS CHARACTER.
Columbus had been absent from Spain two years and six months. He returned broken in health, and the remaining two years of his life are only the sad history of his effort to relieve his name from dishonor and to leave to his sons a fair opportunity to carry forward his work in the world.