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pointed under him, to succeed him, inCase he should die, Peter Gutierrez, andunder him Roderick de Efcovedo-, witha Surgeon, a Ship-Carpenter, a Cooper,a Gunner, and a Taylor. The secondof January 1493. the Admiral tookLeave of Guacanagari , and on the fourthset Sail to the Eastward. The nextDay he discovered the Caravel, underthe Command of Martin Aionzo Pinzon,who had deserted him,and he was seem-ingly reconciled to him. He now re-solved to make the best of his WayHomeward ; And taking ten Indians ,forty Parrots, some Gold, Indian Wheat,and other Things to evince the Truth ofhis Discovery, he returned to Spain< with only one Ship, the Caravel beingagain separated from him and gone toLisbon. Arriving the fifteenth of March ,at PaJos , he, after some Stay there, re-paired to the Court, then at Barcelona,where he came about the Middle ofApril. He was received with all possi-ble Marks of Honour, being allowedto fit in their Majesties Presence, andOrders were given to make the necessa-ry Preparations for a second Voyage. Inthe mean Time, the King and Queen ofSpain, continuing to give the Admiralmore Marks of their Royal Favour, al-lowed him to bear the Arms of Castile ,and Leon, with his paternal Coat, rati-fyed the Contract made with him, in amore ample Form, (of which we havea Copy in his Life, written by his Son)and bestowed some Favours on his Bro-thers, tho’ absent.

For the second Voyage ,Columbus wasfurnished with eighteen (some fay seven-teen) Ships, having fifteen HundredMen on Board, with a great Numberof Officers and Gentlemen, He had,likewise, Mares, Cows, Sheep, Goats,Swine and Asses, in Abundance, tobreed in the Indies, where they hadnone before. Fie, also, had a Quan-tity of Wheat , Barley , and seve-ral Herbs and Plants of Europe, in Or-der to raise those Species in that Coun-try, When the Admiral took hisI Leave of the King and Queen, hewas attended from the Palace to hisLodgings by all the Court, and thefame when he left Barcelona. TheFleetfailed from the Bay of Cadiz, on thefive and twentieth of September, 1493.before Sun-rising, and keeping near'P >e second the Line, the first Land they discover-°^ a Se. ed was (according to some Accounts)the Island, afterwards called Deseada:But Hcrrera and Ferdinand Columbus

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fay, the first Land they saw was, onthe third of November, an Island, whichthe Admiral called Dominica, or Sun-day, (it being disco ver’d on that Day.)

That the next was an Island, which he ststjfrcalled Marigalante, (from his Ship’s covered. JName) where he landed and took Pof-feslion of it, before a Notary and Wit-nesses. That the next Day he foundanother Island, which he called St.

Mary of Guadalupe: That on the tenthhe discovered a very high Island, whichhe called Monferrate, and in the Courseof his Voyage many others, as SantaMaria Redonda, Santa Maria el anti-qua, S. Martin, Santa Cruz, &c. 'tillthey came to another great Island call-ed Boriquen, which he named St. Johnthe Baptist, and is now called St, Juande Puerto Rico. And that on the iwen-ty-fecond of the fame Month, the Ad-miral discovered the first Land of the <y- heIsland Hifpaniola. They then cam o ral arrivesto the Place , now called Puerto de ^ ol ^ lspa 'Plata, in that Island, and thence to thatslnce called Puerto Real. At his Arri-val on the Island, he found, that theeight and thirty Spaniards were all kil-led, in Part, by Discord among them-selves, and the Rest by the Indians,for having attempted to force some oftheir Women. The first Thing Colum-bus did was to lay the Foundation of aCity, which he called Isabella, in Ho-nour to the Queen, being more to theEastward than his former Settlement. h ui itThis done, he sent back Antonio de Tor-res ,- with twelve Ships into Spain, tocarry Presents of Gold of Cibao, (aCountry he had discovered aboundingwith it) with Parrots, Indians, and ci-ther Things; And a full Account ofwhat had been done;While he himself,with the five biggest, two Ships andthree Caravels, went on, in Pursuanceof his Orders, to make farther Discove-ries. He coasted Cuba, which heimagined to be the Continent, and dis-covered other lesser Islands,as alto a largeIsland, which he called St. J ago, now ,J a ™ alc FJamaica. I shall pass by several other overeDiscoveries made this Voyage by Colum-bus, and come to his Return to the Portof Ijabella, in Hifpaniola, where he ar-rived, on the nine and twentieth of Sep-tember, 1494. and found his BrotherBartholomew Columbus there. We left The Adven-Bartholomew, at the Beginning of this u l re d C ^ ar 'Chapter, going to offer this Discovery cotoS.to the King of England . He spent se-ven Years before he came to an Agree-ment with King Henry VII, and in get-

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