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"Barring the unlikely discovery of the long-lost original Diario or of the single complete copy ordered for Columbus by Queen Isabella, Las Casas's partly summarized, partly quoted version is as close to the original as it is possible to come," note historians Oliver Dunn and James E. Kelley, Jr.
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The only surviving record of Columbus's journals is a transcription done by Bartolomé de las Casas decades after Columbus's journey. How trustworthy is this as a source? The transcription is purported to be an exact copy, a fact we can't verify for certain.
Columbus's log of the first voyage has not survived, although we do have an abstract of it, written in the 1530's by Bartolome de las Casas. However that actually used the "Barcelona Copy" of Columbus original log.
Journal of Christopher Columbus, 1492 First encounters between Europeans and Native Americans were dramatic events. In this account we see the assumptions and intentions of Christopher Columbus, as he immediately began assessing the potential of these people to serve European economic interests.
Multiple scholarly interpretations and descriptions of Columbus and his actions are based on the de las Casas transcription rather than the original copy of Columbus's Diario which has disappeared.
Multiple scholarly interpretations and descriptions of Columbus and his actions are based on the de las Casas transcription rather than the original copy of Columbus's Diario which has disappeared.
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The primary surviving record of the voyage-part quotation, part summary of the complete copy-is a transcription made by Bartolome de las Casas in the 1530s.
