In
his own words. And from the book written
by his son Ferdinand. Amid all of the
controversies about his actions, what was his side of the story?
“Now
in the meantime I had learned from certain Indians, whom I had seized there,
that this country was indeed an island, and therefore I proceeded toward the
east, keeping all the time near the coast, for three hundred twenty-two miles,
to the extreme ends of this island.”
Read
from a letter he wrote when he got back to Spain: http://dld.bz/fXG7w
History
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