Excerpt from An Archer With ColumbusDiaz was a short, obese man with a round, red face. He was ignorant and avaricious, servile to his superiors and tyrannical to those beneath him. One of the chief victims of his petty tyranny was his apprentice, Felix Madrigal, a friendless orphan boy, whose unwilling drudgery was repaid with scanty fare and abundant blows.Yet Ignacio Diaz considered himself a person of consequence and after the events related in this story, his self-importance increased greatly, and for the rest of his life he boasted of the part he had taken in one of the grandest achievements in the history of mankind.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.