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Fourth Voyage: A Flotilla of four vessels Canary Islands Martinique Dominica Santa-Cruz Porto-Rico Hispaniola Jamaica Cayman Island Pinos Island Island of Guanaja Cape Honduras The American Coast of Truxillo on the Gulf of Darien The Limonare Islands Huerta The Coast of Veragua Auriferous Strata Revolt of the Natives The Dream of Columbus Porto-Bello The Mulatas Putting into port at Jamaica Distress Revolt of the Spaniards against Columbus Lunar Eclipse Arrival of Columbus at Hispaniola Return of Columbus to Spain His death, on the 20th of March, 1506.
His fourth voyage had increased geographical knowledge by the discovery of the Cayman Islands, Martinique, Guanaja, the Limonare Islands, with the coasts of Honduras, Mosquito, Nicaragua, Veragua, Costa-Rica, Porto-Bello, and Panama, the Mulatas Islands, and the Gulf of Darien. During this, his last voyage across the ocean, Columbus was destined to be again tried by storms.
Continuing onward, they passed Port Retrete, and a number of islands to which the admiral gave the name of Las Barbas, now termed the Mulatas, a little beyond Point Blas. Here he supposed that he had arrived at the province of Mangi in the territories of the Grand Khan, described by Marco Polo as adjoining to Cathay.
The flotilla consisted now of but two caravels, without boats, almost without provisions, and with 7000 miles of ocean to traverse. It sailed along the coast, passed the port of El Retrete, discovered the group of islands called the Mulatas, and at length entered the Gulf of Darien. This was the farthest point east reached by Columbus.
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