Note 308-3 — LETTER OF DR. CHANCA ON THE SECOND VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS

I can offer no explanation for this name, which is found only in Dr. Chanca’s letter. Bernaldez, who copied Dr. Chanca, gives Isabela as the name of the city, II. 30, and the Historie and Las Casas, who preserve for us the gist of Columbus’s own narrative, both say that “he named the city Isabela in memory of Queen Isabela.” Las Casas, II. 21. Historie, p. 150.