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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Biography furnishes no parallel to the life of Christopher Columbus. Great men there have been who have met with disappointment and injustice, but there is perhaps no other instance of a great man whom disappointments and in justice did not dishearten and disgust; who had his greatness recognized in his lifetime, and yet was robbed of the emoluments it entitled him to, and who, after death, had the honor he had so hardly won conferred upon another.