Christopher Colombus

The tone of Christopher Columbus letter to Ferdinand and Isabella Regarding the Fourth Voyage is of anger which is a negative tone toward Ferdinand and Isabella. "Of Española, Paria, and the other lands, I never think without weeping." (p27). Christopher Columbus shows some frustration tone "Seven years I was at your royal court, where all to whom this undertaking was mentioned, unanimously declared it to be a delusion. Now all, down to the very tailors, seek permission to make discoveries. It can be believed that they go forth to plunder, and it is granted to them to do so, so that they greatly prejudice my honor and do very great damage to the enterprise." (p27). Christopher Columbus felt betrayed by Ferdinand and Isabella after he discovers all the new land for them. Christopher Columbus was arrested and humiliated after all his new discovery. "After I, by the divine will, had placed them under your royal and exalted lordship, and was on the point of securing a very great revenue, suddenly, while l was waiting for ships to come to your high presence with victory and with great news of gold, being very secure and joyful, I was made a prisoner and with my two brothers was thrown into a ship, laden with fetters, stripped to the skin, very ill-treated, and without being tried or condemned." (p27). He mention on the letter that after serving them since the age of twenty eight he feel humiliated because the way he and his families are treated and dishonor in the eye of society. "I came to serve at the age of twenty-eight years, and now I have not a hair on my body that is not gray and my body is infirm, and whatever remained to me from those years of service has been spent and taken away from me and sold, and from my brothers, down to my very coat, without my being heard or seen, to my great dishonor." (p28).