Excerpt from Columbus the Catholic: A Comprehensive Story of the Discovery The author has also endeavored to tell the story of Columbus in a Simple and comprehensive style. While giving due prominence to every striking feature he has omitted a mass of tedious details and controversial matter, which however impor tant from a historical point of view, are decidedly uninteresting to the general reader. 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.