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National Humanities Center Columbus’s letter on his first voyage to America, February 1493 4 possession of all these islands for their Highnesses, and all may be more extensive than I know or can say, and I hold them for their Highnesses, who can command them as absolutely as the kingdoms of Castile. of “
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Christopher Columbus, a Genoese captain in the service of the Crown of Castile, set out on his first voyage in August 1492 with the objective of reaching the East Indies by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean. Instead of reaching Asia, Columbus stumbled upon the Caribbean islands of the Americas.
Select letters of Christopher Columbus : with other original documents, relating to his four voyages to the New World. "The translated documents [in English, with Spanish at foot of page] are seven in number. Five of them are letters from the hand of Columbus himself ...
• How did Christopher Columbus describe who and what he found in the Caribbean? • What did Columbus suggest were the Caribbean’s most notable attributes? • How did Columbus’s expedition impact the Native peoples of the Caribbean?
A letter of Christopher Columbus. Incipit: [H]aving now accomplished the undertaking upon which I set out, I know that it will be agreeable to you to be informed of all that I have done and discovered in my voyage Caption title.
This text of the present edition was prepared from and proofed against The Voyages of Christopher Columbus, Being the Journals of his First and Third, and the Letters Concerning his First and Last Voyages, to Which is Added the Account of his Second Voyage Written by Andres Bernaldez.