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1493-01-07

Columbus’s men caulk the Niña’s leak and find mastic and aloe

Haitian

This day he had a leak that the caravel was making stopped and had her caulked, and the sailors went ashore to bring firewood, and they found, so he says, many mastic trees and aloe wood.

Source  ·  p. p. 275 Bartolomé de Las Casas, Diario del primer viaje (Las Casas’s abstract of Columbus’s log), in Navarrete, Colección de los viages y descubrimientos, t. I (1825), p. p. 275