Excerpt from Prophetic Voices Concerning America, Vol. 1: A Monograph Four, if not more, copies are extant in the undoubted handwriting of Columbus, precious autographs to tempt collectors; two in his work on the Prophecies, another in a letter to Queen Isabella, and still an other entered among his observations of lunar eclipses at Hayti and Jamaica. By these the great admiral sailed. Humboldt has preserved a copy in the follovir _iiig questionable form, without even mentioning the variation in prosody and in an important word from the received text. 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.