Chap. XIX. Jfoni the Conquest, to theT)eath I,

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May, 1497. From the Maderas he sentthree Ships to Hispaniola, with threeHundred Men. With the other three,he kept near the Line, where he hadsuch dead Calms,., and excessive Heat,that they expected all to have perissied.The Winds coming up at last, he pro-ceeded, and, on the first of August, dis-Th e 7(i covered the Island by him called la Tri-

^Winidai/ n ^dad, or the Trinity , near that Part of' the Continent now called New Andalu-zia, (Ferdinand Columbus says the Con-tinent called Paria ) then ran alongthat Coast, trading with the Natives forGold and Pearls, giving Names to allPlaces of Note, (tho’ he did not thenknow it was the Continent) ’till thinkinghis Presence necessary at FUjpaniola, hesailed back the same Way to the IslandA of Trinity, discovered that which he

&r; ta called Margarita, and arrived at Santoter ed. co ~ Domingo, where he was received as Go-vernour. These Discoveries must havetaken the Admiral a more considerableSpace of Time, than is mentioned in hisHistory, for it appears, that he did notreturn to St. Domingo, till the four andtwentieth of August 1498.

There must, however, be someMistake, in one or more of the AuthorsI have consulted, concerning the Depar-ture of Columbus, on this third Voyage.

I find it in two several Accounts fixedto the nineteenth of May, 1497. HisSon Ferdinand fays, in the LXV. Chap-ter of his Life, (according to the Tran-slation in the Collection of Voyages, infix Volumes in Folio,) that ten or twelveMonths elapsed, before he obtainedtwo Ships, which were sent before, andset out in February, 1498. and the Ad-miral staid to negociate the obtainingsuch a Fleet, as was requisite for himto return to the Indies. But he wasforced to stay above a Year at Burgos,and at Medina del Campo, where, inthe Year 1499. their Catholick Maje-sties granted him many Favours, andgave the necessary Orders for his Affairs.Fut, in the following Chapter, he con-tradicts himself, and says, the Admiralstt Sail from the Bay of St. Lucar deBarremeda , with six Ships, &c. on thethirtieth of May, 1498. The most pro-bable is, that the two Ships were dis-patched some Time in 1497* and thatthe Admiral departed in May, 1498.This will agree with the Time of hisArrival, noted by his Brother, as above ja nd that he could not be in Spain, in

Me

ay, 1499. appears from the Date of a

Lettef sent to him from the King andQueen of Spain, to the Indies, byFrancis de Bovadiila, of whom I shallhave Occasion to speak quickly, whichLetter was of the twenty-sirst" of May,

1499. after having received an Accountof his Arrival in the Indies.

After this third Voyage of Columbus,several private Adventurers fitted out p rivatl> jp.Ships in Spain, particularly AlonJ'ode O- venttt rehjeda, in 1499. and with them wefit A-mericus Vejpujius, who gave his Nameto America. But it might, as Purchas mefica.well observes, with more Propriety,have been called Cabofia, or Sebastiana -,

For tho’ Columbus discovered some ofthe Isles of America before, he did notfee the Continent till 1498. WhereasJohn and Sebastian Cabot discovered itthe Year before ; as we shall fee in theensuing Chapter. But to return to Co-lumbus ; At his Arrival, he found theIndians all in Arms, tho’ they had seve-ral Times been defeated by the Spani-ardsj particularly under the Conduct ofBartholomew Columbus, the Admiral’sBrother, who took fifteen of their Ca-ciques, or Kings, and their chief GeneralGuarinoex, all whom he released, upontheir Promise to live in Subjection to theKing of Spain. Soon after, some of theSpaniards mutinied, and seperated them-selves from the Rest, which was ofmore pernicious Consequence to them,than all the Natives could do.

Bartholomew Columbus, the Ad- The fourthmiral’s Brother, having, in particular,disobliged some of the Spaniards, theymade their Complaints at Court; Uponwhich the King sent over Francis de Bo-'vadilla , who arriving at St. Domingo,in August 1500. upon very slight Infor - The Admiralmations, clapt the Admiral and his Bro- and his Bro-ther in Irons, and so put them 0n (her sent inBoard, and sent them to Spain. After Spain.**some Trouble, Columbus was restored tohis Authority, as Admiral, but was,contrary to Agreement, deprived of hisGovernment of the West-Indies, and, They arein the Room of it, fed up with fair Pro- bo l h c J e f r ',mises. On the ninth of May, JS^Mmiralde-Admiral Columbus set Sail from Spain,prived of hison this fourth Voyage of Discovery,with Government*four Caravels, fitted out by the King,and one Hundred and seventy Men inthem. On the nine and twentieth ofJune, he arrived before Santo Domingo,in the Island of Hispaniola, where theGovernour, Nicholas de Ovando, wouldnot suffer him to come into the Port, and'therefore, on the fourteenth ot July, heY wenc