Note 108 — SECOND VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS.
Richard Henry Major translation
Doctor Chanca was appointed physician to Columbus’s fleet by a dispatch of the 23rd of May, 1493; and on the 24th, the chief accountants were instructed to pay him salary and rations as scrivener in the Indies. Señor de Navarrete, who saw the manuscript, “Historia de la Reyes Católicos,” says that its author, Andres Bernaldez, Cura de los Palacios, makes mention of Dr. Chanca, and had this same narration before him, as may be seen in the one hundred and twentieth chapter of his history.