The Monarchs bar Columbus from stopping at Ayiti on his fourth voyage

«The King and the Queen: don Cristóbal Colón, our Admiral of the islands and mainland that are in the Ocean Sea in the part of the Indies. We saw your letter of the 26th of February, and those you sent with it, and the memorials you gave us, and as to what you say, that for this voyage on which you go you would wish to pass by la Española, we already told you that, because it is not reasonable that any time be lost for this voyage on which you now go, in any case you go by this other way, and on the return, if it seems to you necessary, you may turn back by there in passing, to stop but little; because, as you see, it will be fitting that, when you have returned from the voyage on which you now go, We be at once informed by you in person of all that you shall have found and done in it, so that, with your opinion and counsel, We may provide thereon what best serves our service, and the things necessary for the trade from here may be provided. …