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XXVII. 



Translation of original draft by Columbus for one hundred 



GOLD CASTELLANOS. DaTED AT GrANADA, OCTOBER 22ND, 1501, 



Original in the collection of the Duke of Berwick-Alba, 

 Madrid. 



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Most Virtuous Sir: 



I pray you to cause one hundred gold castellanos, which I need 

 here to go to Seville to be loaned to me. You will be pleased to 

 order them to be given to the bearer, Diego Tristan, my Majordomo, 

 who will acknowledge the receipt thereof on the back of this draft. 



Done on Friday, the 22nd of October, 1501. 



S. 



o. A. o. 

 X. M. Y. 



The Admiral. 



On the back. (In the handwriting of some one else). 



The Admiral of the Indies. 3 x i v ii j p d. 



I, Diego Tristan, do hereby acknowledge to have received of the 

 treasurer, Alonzo de Morales, the one hundred castellanos to which 

 the present draft of the Admiral refers, said amount being equal to 

 48,500 maravedis. In testimony of which I have hereunto subscribed 

 my name, at Granada, on the 23rd of October, 1501. 



Diego Tristan. (Autograph). 



Memorandum in continuation of the above in Columbus' hand- 

 writing : 



The above amount was deducted from the 150,000 which after- 

 ward were given to me at Seville, by order of Her Highness, to aid 

 me in defraying the expenses, and the receipt of which I acknowl- 

 edged. 



