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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- SAILING DIRECTIONS OF COLUMBUS. LETTERS OF TOSCANELLI
- JOURNAL OF THE FIRST VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS
- DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE VOYAGES OF JOHN CABOT
- DOCUMENTS RELATING TO SEBASTIAN CABOT
- DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE VOYAGES OF GASPAR CORTE REAL
- INDEX TO THE JOURNAL OF COLUMBUS
- INDEX TO THE DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE VOYAGES OF JOHN CABOT AND GASPAR CORTE REAL
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JOURNAL OF THE FIRST VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- SAILING DIRECTIONS OF COLUMBUS. LETTERS OF TOSCANELLI
- JOURNAL OF THE FIRST VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS
- DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE VOYAGES OF JOHN CABOT
- DOCUMENTS RELATING TO SEBASTIAN CABOT
- DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE VOYAGES OF GASPAR CORTE REAL
- INDEX TO THE JOURNAL OF COLUMBUS
- INDEX TO THE DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE VOYAGES OF JOHN CABOT AND GASPAR CORTE REAL
- Plate section
Summary
This is the first voyage and the routes and direction taken by the Admiral Don Cristobal Colon when he discovered the Indies, summarized; except the prologue made for the Sovereigns, which is given word for word and commences in this manner.
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.Because, O most Christian, and very high, very excellent, and puissant Princes, King and Queen of the Spains and of the islands of the Sea, our Lords, in this present year of 1492, after your Highnesses had given an end to the war with the Moors who reigned in Europe, and had finished it in the very great city of Granada, where in this present year, on the second day of the month of January, by force of arms, I saw the royal banners of your Highnesses placed on the towers of Alfambra, which is the fortress of that city, and I saw the Moorish King come forth from the gates of the city and kiss the royal hands of your Highnesses, and of the Prince my Lord, and presently in that same month, acting on the information that I had given to your Highnesses touching the lands of India, and respecting a Prince who is called Gran Can, which means in our language King of Kings, how he and his ancestors had sent to Rome many times to ask for learned men of our holy faith to teach him, and how the Holy Father had never complied, insomuch that many people believing in idolatries were lost by receiving doctrine of perdition:
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- Journal of Christopher Columbus (During his First Voyage, 1492–93)And Documents Relating the Voyages of John Cabot and Gaspar Corte Real, pp. 13 - 194Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1893