Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-08-20

When Columbus set sail on this mem
 Orable voyage he commenced a regular ! journal intended for the inspection oi
 the Spanish sOvereigns. Like all his other transactions. it evinces how deeply
 ne was impressed with tine grandeur and
 sOlemnity of his enterprise He pro | posed to keep it. as he afterward ob served. Tn the manner of the COmmenta- res of Cesar It opened with stately prologue wherein in the following words were set forth the motives and views which led to his expedition:
 "ln nomine D. N .iesu Christi Where
 as most Christian. most high. most ex-
 rellent and most powerful princes, king | and queen of the Spains and of the Islands of the sea, our sOvereignS. Tn the
 present year Uf,. l492. after your high
 nesses had puS ;n end to the war with the MnorS who ruled m Europe. and had concluded that warfare im the great city
 of Grenada. where on the 2d of Jan
 nary of this present year saw the royal
 tanners of your highneSSes placed by
 force of arms on the towers of the Al
 hambra. winch Is the fortress of that
 city. and heheld the MuOrish king sally
 forth from the gates of the city and
 KISS the royal hands of your high
 nesSes and of the ford the prince. and
 immediately in that same month, in consequence of the information which
 1 had gwen to your highneSses of the lands of India. and of a prince who is called the grand khan. which k to say in our language. king of kings. how that many tiInes he and his predecessors had sent tu Rome to entreat for doctors of our holy faith to instruct him Tn the same: and that the holy father had never provided hilu with them. and thus so many people were lost. believing Tn idol atrles and imbibing doctrines of perdi- ton. therefore, your hIghneSSes. as Cath Olic Christians and princes lovers and promoters of the holy Christian faith and enemies of the sect of MOhammed and of all idOlatrles and heresies. determined In send me, Christopher Columbus. to the said parts of India to see the said princes and the people and lands and discover the nature and disposition of them all and the means tO be taken for the conversion of them to our holy faith, and ordered that should not go by land to the east. by which 1t k the custom to go, but by voyage to the west by which course. unto the present time. we do not know for certain that any one hath passed Your highneSses there fore, after having expelled all the Jews from your kingdoms and territories, commanded me in the sane month of January to proceed with sufficient armament to the sad parts of India: and for this purpose bestowed great favors upon me, ennobling me, that thencefor- ward might style myself Don. appoint ing me high admiral of the ocean sea and perpetual vlceroy and governor of all the islands and continents l should discover and gain. and which hencefOr- ward may be discovered and gained in the ocean sea, and that my eldest son should succeed me, and so on from gen %ratinn tO generation forever.
 Il departed therefore from the city or Granada on Saturday. the 18th of May. Of the same year l492 to Palos, a seaport. where l armed three ships. we'll calcu- lated for such service. and sailed from that port. well furnished with provisions and with many seamen. on Friday, the SI of August of the same year. half an hour before sunrise, and took the route for the Canary islands of your highneSses, to steer my course thence and navigate until should arrive at the indies. and deliver the embassy of your hlghnesses 10 those princes and accomplish that which you had commanded For this purpose ! Intend to write during this voyage very punctually from day to day all that l may do and see and expert ence. as will hereafter be seen. Also.