James A. Landau is correct with respect to the Jamaica trip being
Cristobol Colon's 4th trip to the new world. Other points that James
cited are speculation, or worse with garbled or non-existent
document ion. Concerning Columbus's first and second trip, if not all,
the original log books, in Colon's writing do not exist, as I read the
record.
For sure, the first trip's log book was re-written by Bishop Landa,
the same Catholic official that lead the effort to burn Mayan codicies.
In the first log book the 'armed guards of Polaris' calculations were
severely garbled, as a non-navigator would have done.
Why did Bishop Landa alter Colon's log books, may be even the second
one James cited? To hide the actual longitude of the New World locations,
as a major Treaty between Spain and Portugal established in 1498. Had
the proper longitudes been given, as clearly the 4th trip would have
been established by a trained navigator, the majority of Spain's New
World lands would have belonged to Portugal.
Again, I thank James for citing the thoughts of Colon's son Fernando,
someone that was clearly off base, related to the best navigator minds
of Spain that monitored Colon's work.
Regards to all,
Milo Gardner