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AN ACCOUNT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2011

Christopher Columbus
Edited and translated by
Richard Henry Major
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Given by Diego Mendez in his will of some events that occurred in the last voyage of the Admiral Don Christopher Columbus.

Diego Mendez, citizen of St. Domingo, in the island of Española, being in the city of Valladolid, where the Court of their most sacred Majesties was at the time staying, made his will on the sixth day of June, of the year one thousand five hundred and thirty-six, before Fernando Perez, their Majesties' scrivener, and notary public in that their Court, and in all their Kingdoms and Lordships, the witnesses to the same being Diego de Arana, Juan Diez Miranda de la Cuadra, Martin de Orduña, Lucas Fernandez, Alonzo de Angulo, Francisco de Hinojosa and Diego de Aguilar, all servants of my Lady the Vicequeen of the Indies.

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Select Letters of Christopher Columbus
With Other Original Documents, Relating to His Four Voyages to the New World
 , pp. 204 - 234
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1847

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