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Identifier: journalofamerica00mill (find matches)
Title: The journal of American history
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Americana Antiques
Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Associated Publishers of American Records
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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of the humorous side of events, combined withthe hyperbolic way of expressing their thoughts so peculiar to the nativesof Southern Spain, and almost impossible to appreciate in their full signifi-cance by foreigners. All other transcriptions of this document by theEnglish and Americans have been, I believe, repetitions of Mr. Majorsversion. Dr. Ybarras recent translation, with its interesting remarks andnotations, as deposited in the archives of the Smithsonian Institution andrecorded in the Government Collection, is here given the first public recordin an American literary periodical, where it will be brought to the attentionof the public-at-large. This ancient manuscript is so entertaining in itsobservations of the American cannibals, who were a source of so muchamusement to Europeans, that its service is not alone to historical scholar-ship, but to all Americans who are interested in truth that is strangerthan fiction, for such is the real romance of all History.—Editor \\m\ JJ m
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Jb amtsrrtpt of pfgatriatt nn (Enlmnbitfi §>ljtp HIS document is a letter addressed to the Municipal Council, or / ^ Cabildo,1 of the city of Seville, Spain, by Dr. Diego Alvarez M Chanca, a native of that city, and physician to the fleet of ■ ■ Columbus on his second voyage of discovery to America,2 dated WL^g. r at the port of Isabella, in the Island of Hispaniola, or Santo ^B^^ Domingo, West Indies, at the end of January, 1494. This letter left the port of Isabella on February 2d, in care of Don Antonio de Torres, commander of the twelve vessels sent back by Columbus to Spain with the news of the discoveries, and arrived there April 8, 1494. Every thing Dr. Chanca says in his letter, therefore, regarding those just discovered islands of the New World, he learned in the short space of time between November 3, 1493, when he saw the first island (Dominica), and the last week of January, 1494—that is, in less than three months. Dr. Diego Alvarez Chanca had been especially app

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