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ALVO'S LOG-BOOK.

month of July. On the 14th I took the sun. This town is in 15° 10'.

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September, 1522.

On the 4th of the said month, in the morning, we saw land, and it was Cape St. Vincent, and it was to the north-east of us, and so we changed our course to the S.E., to get away from that Cape.




The manuscript has at the end:

Vto Simancas, 8 Setiembre, 1783, Muñoz.


D. Juan Bautista Muñoz, who died in 1822 or 1823, made a large collection of transcripts from the Simancas and Seville archives, which Navarrete made use of. In 1793 Muñoz published the first volume of his Historia del Nuevo Mundo, which he never finished.