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Now, I want you to note particularly the significance of this last fact, that not only have those three disappeared, but so has Fonseca! What does this mean? Why, without doubt it means that the surgeon also was in the plot with Ricardo against us, and that we have him also to reckon with.
According to the terms of the Knox treaty the United States was to pay Nicaragua $3,000,000 in return for an exclusive right of way for a canal through her territory, a naval base on the Gulf of Fonseca, and the lease for ninety-nine years of the Great Corn and Little Corn Islands in the Caribbean.
That the aboriginal dwellers around the Bay of Fonseca appreciated its conchological treasures, we had afterwards ample evidence; for at many places on its islands and shores we found vast heaps of oyster-shells, which seemed to have been piled up as reverent reminiscences of the satisfaction which their contents had afforded.
All this time, no doubt, Ojeda was loyal to his Admiral; but he had recently made a trip home to Spain, where, from his friend Bishop Fonseca, he had learned many things, false as well as true, that poisoned his mind against his great leader. So he in turn gathered the discontented into a threatening band. "I have word from Spain," he told them, "that our good queen lies dying.
This was another blow to the malignant Fonseca, who retained his enmity against Cortez until his last moment, rendered still more rancorous by mortification and disappointment. A charge against Fonseca, of a still darker nature than any of the preceding, may be found lurking in the pages of Herrera, though so obscure as to have escaped the notice of succeeding historians.
He therefore represented to Fonseca what a pity it would be if all this revenue should remain untapped just because one man had not time to attend to it, and he proposed that he should take out an expedition at his own cost and share the profits with the Crown.
He had an accumulation of pearls of which he had given no account to Fonseca, and the possession of which he excused by the queer statement that he was waiting to announce it until he could match it with an equal amount of gold!
To quarrels between him and Columbus at this time have been referred the persecutions which Columbus afterwards suffered. In this case the king sustained Columbus in all his requisitions, and Fonseca was obliged to answer them.
"You are Senior Don Martin Fonseca?" "The same." "Follow me, if it please you, senor, to my master, Lou Roderigo Calderon." Fonseca's face brightened; he obeyed the summons; and in another moment he was in the cabinet of the Sejanus of Spain. Calderon received the young soldier at the door of his chamber with marked and almost affectionate respect.
No matter, except that one is glad to think that an old enemy for Fonseca and Columbus had bitter disagreements over the fitting out of various expeditions had shown himself friendly at last. Letter written by CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS to DON DIEGO, November 28, 1504. "VERY DEAR SON, I received your letters of the 15th of this month. It is eight days since I wrote you and sent the letter by a courier.
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