[73]: Las Casas, ubi sup. Herrera, ubi sup.
[74]: Hist. del Almirante, cap. 85. Las Casas. Herrera, ubi sup.
[75]: Letter of Columbus to the nurse of Prince Juan.
[76]: Ibid.
[77]: Letter of Columbus to the nurse of Prince Juan.
[78]: Idem. Herrera, decad. i. lib. iv.
[79]: Herrera, decad. i. lib. iv. cap. 9. Letter to the nurse of Prince Juan.
[80]: Las Casas, Hist. Ind., lib. i. cap. 180.
[81]: Idem, lib. i. cap. 180.
[82]: Peter Martyr mentions a vulgar rumor of the day, that the admiral, not knowing what might happen, wrote a letter in cipher to the Adelantado, urging him to come with arms in his hands to prevent any violence that might be contrived against him; that the Adelantado advanced, in effect, with his armed force, but having the imprudence to proceed some distance ahead of it, was surprised by the governor, before his men could come to his succor, and that the letter in cipher had been sent to Spain. This must have been one of the groundless rumors of the day, circulated to prejudice the public mind. Nothing of the kind appears among the charges in the inquest made by Bobadilla, and which was seen, and extracts made from it, by Las Casas, for his history. It is, in fact, in total contradiction to the statements of Las Casas, Herrera, and Fernando Columbus.