Torres sails from Isabela with twelve ships and reaches Cádiz in April

Antonio de Torres arrived in Castile with his 12 ships, with a very good and short voyage, because he left the port of la Isabela on 2 February and reached Cádiz almost at the beginning of April, or on the 8th or 10th of April. The Sovereigns received inestimable joy at the coming of Antonio de Torres, on learning that the Admiral, with the whole fleet, had arrived safely at this island, and still more with the letters and account of the Admiral, and the gold that he sent them, gathered from the very mines of Cibao by the people he had sent with Hojeda to see and discover them, and to prove by sight that there was gold in the land itself and taken out by their own hands; and because the Sovereigns had perhaps already ordered three ships to be made ready to go after the Admiral and his fleet, out of the desire they had to know of him, from fear, perhaps, that the fleet which the king of Portugal was said to have might have met him, the said three ships; …