September- Almost everybody is losing faith that we will ever make it. Columbus believes that we are all going to Pinzon with our problems and I don’t blame him, lots of us have been going to him to talk but I am one of the very few that don’t make trips to talk to him. We have had many different signs of land but, we haven’t found any yet.
October- November
Early October- It seems as if we have been sailing on this voyage forever. We have seen many birds which Columbus is sure are signs of land along with all of the weed that we keep seeing. Pinzon wanted to steer southwest by west to reach the island of Japan, but, Columbus didn’t want to waste time but, the rest of us just wanted to get to some type of land. I am not pleased at all with his decision although, I will support him. We have seen what appears to be land, but, nobody wanted to make false claims of discovery. …show more content…
No land was found and it had appeared to be an illusion. Columbus had informed us that we had only made one hundred thirty-two miles, and we had all complained for the long voyage.
Mid-October- Columbus believed that he had seen land. Only Gutierrez and he could see it. This morning the Pinta had blown a canon showing that they had seen land to the west. We waited till morning till we set sail. As we came closer to land we had seen naked people. Columbus went ashore with his arm and was followed by Martin Pinzon, and his brother Vincent Pinzon. The people on this island of San Salvador (the first that Columbus has named) came later in the day with items to trade it was very exciting to meet new