CHAPTER III.
THE PAPAL GIFT OF ALL THE HEATHEN WORLD
TO THE PORTUGUESE AND SPANIARDS.
"Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast born me a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth.—Jeremiah xv. 10.
Also in their skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents.Jeremiah v. 10.
Columbus, while seeking for a western track to the East Indies, on Friday, Oct. 12th, 1492, stumbled on a New World! The discoveries by Prince Henry of Portugal, of Madeira, and of a considerable extent of the African coast, had impressed him with a high idea of the importance of what yet was to be discovered, and of the possibility of reaching India by sea. This had led him to obtain a Bull from Pope Eugene IV. granting to the crown of Portugal all the countries which the Portuguese should discover from Cape Non to India. Columbus, having now discovered America, although unknown to himself, supposing it still to be some part of India, his monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, lost no time in applying for a similar grant. Alexander VI., a Spaniard, was equally generous with his predecessor, and accord-
