Islands named 

 by Columbus 



III. Fernandina 



IV. Isabella 



Morison 



Long 

 island 



Crooked 



Verhoog 



Acklin 



Great 

 Inagua 



Link 



Long 

 island 



Crooked 



This new route which Ed had evolved also eliminated 

 many of the discrepancies which we had found in Ver- 

 hoog's chosen track from Caicos by way of Great Inagua. 

 Ed and I became very excited over this new possibility, 

 for it furnished an answer to many of the problems which 

 had hitherto appeared unsolvable. 



Again we went over the various translations of the 

 Journal which were available. It seemed very necessary 

 to find someone with a thorough knowledge of old Spanish 

 to retranslate this particular section of the Journal for us 

 from the most authentic Spanish text available. 



Providentially, a few weeks later, while we were in 

 Havana visiting friends, the conversation turned to our 

 pending expedition and some of the problems which it 

 presented. From our host we learned of Armando Alvarez 

 Pedroso, author of a Latin-American prize-winning bi- 

 ography of Columbus,* a man weU versed in old Spanish 

 and, necessarily, thoroughly steeped in lore of the Great 

 Discoverer. We were introduced to Dr. Pedroso the next 

 day. He was immediately interested in our project and en- 

 thusiastically o£Fered any assistance he might give. 



To test our theory of the existence of an unnamed 

 island which Columbus might have passed after leaving 

 San Salvador, Ed asked Dr. Pedroso to read the original 

 Spanish text for October fourteenth and fifteenth and to 

 diagram his interpretation of it. Ed did this without tell- 



* Cristobal Colon, biografia del descubridor, Habana, 1944. 



On the Track of Columbus 303. 



