Follows the first voyage of discovery made by Christopher Columbus through excerpts from the journal he kept. Excerpts and edited portions of the actual journal Columbus kept during his 1492 voyage.
Translation based on Las Casas abstract of the Log with additions from his Historia and Fernando Columbus's Historia (of the Columbus family). His own account of the voyage.
Presents the log of Christopher Columbus as copied out in brief by his companion, Bartholomew Las Casas, relating the day-to-day drama of a long sea voyage into the unknown.