Spaniards report Ojeda at Yaquimo and Columbus fears he will load brazilwood
… and this picture and report the Admiral sent to the Sovereigns in that same year 98, on the 18th of October, when the said ships departed, and they arrived by Christmas, and in them my father went, as appears in chapter 155, above. Therefore, if Ojeda and Américo departed in May, on the 20th of it, as Américo himself writes, it can only have been in the following year, 99. Likewise, it is confirmed by another reason: the Admiral was advised by the Christians who were in the province of Yaquimo, which was called the land of Brazil, that Ojeda had arrived there on the 5th of September, and the Admiral so wrote to the Sovereigns in the ships in which the procurators of the Admiral and of Roldán went; and this was in the year 99, at the time when the return of Francisco Roldán and his company to obedience to the Admiral was being completed or was completed, and this is the first voyage that Américo made with Ojeda; therefore Ojeda and Américo cannot have departed from Cáliz in the year 97, but in 99.