I will wear them until the king and queen bid me take them off.

I will preserve them afterwards as relics and memorials of the reward of my services." His son, Fernando, who tells this story, says that he did so, that they were always hanging in his cabinet, and that he asked that they might be buried with him when he died.
From this expression of Fernando Columbus, there has arisen, what Mr.
Harrisse calls, a "pure legend," that the chains were placed in the coffin of Columbus.

Mr.Harrisse shows good reason for thinking that this was not so.

"Although disposed to believe that, in a moment of just indignation, Columbus expressed the wish that these tokens of the ingratitude of which he had been the victim should be buried, with him, I do not believe that they were ever placed in his coffin." It will thus be seen that the third voyage added to the knowledge of the civilized world the information which Columbus had gained regarding Paria and the island of Trinidad.

For other purposes of discovery, it was fruitless..