ad THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1494. 



[III. 4.] have sayd before. This Bartholomew therefore returning 

 unto Castile, with the capitulations granted by the king 

 of England to his brother, understood at Paris by Charles 

 the king of France, that the Admirall his brother had 

 already performed that discovery : whereupon the French 

 king gave unto the sayd Bartholomew an hundred 

 French crownes to beare his charges into Spaine. And 

 albeit he made great haste upon this good newes to 

 meet with the Admirall in Spaine, yet at his comming 

 to Sivil his brother was already returned to the Indies 

 with seventeene saile of shipps. Wherefore to fulfill 

 that which he had left him in charge in the beginning of 

 the yeere 1494 he repaired to the Catholike princes, 

 taking with him Diego Colon my brother and me also, 

 which were to be preferred as Pages to the most excellent 

 Prince Don John, who now is with God, according to 

 the commandement of the Catholike Queene Lady 

 Isabell, which was then in Validolid. Assoone therefore 

 as we came to the Court, the princes called for Don 

 Bartholomew, and sent him to Hispaniola with three 

 ships, &c. 



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