The+first+voyage

 **by César Alberca, Andrés Savchynets, Leyre Palomares y Alejandra Doral**  __ The diary __ __**Resume of the diary**__
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= ** 1.Preparatives ** = Once satisfied the personal and familiar demands of colon the authorities ordered to put of Columbus disposition **three caravels** he chooses.Ultimately the ships of the expedition where not three but two.The kings arranged **everything necessary to arm the fleet** that would exist on the ocean.To equip the navy with everything necessary before a trip of this characteristics ,the monarchs sent to the authorities of the zone and of his kingdoms in general the order to collaborate in everything with the captain christopher columbus.

** 2.The beguining of the voyage **
Columbus started his firs voyage to "Asia", for found new trading routes, in Puerto de Palos de la Frontera, the 3th of Augost 1492. The expedition was forming by **La Pinta**, **La Niña** and **La Santa María**. La Niña and La Pinta were leddered by the **brothers Pinzón** and La Santa María by Columbus with the help of Juan de la Costa. The 5th of Augost the rudder of La Pinta broke so they stopped their voyage in the Canaries Islands to change the ship, but, they can´t so they repaired, in addition he was useful to change also the canvas of La Niña this is why they did not depart until the 6th of september when they continued their voyage.



3.The route
They crossed the **Atlantic Ocean** using the Elisions winds, traveling to the south. They covered 50 lighe diaries.The tripulation began to be worried because the time, so **Martín Alonso Pinzón** proposed to change the direction but Columbus don´t accepted it. The next day Columbus saw some birds so he decided to go to the **west**, The **9th** of september they started to sailed,an he was completely right, because if he continued with the other route the float were going to be in the centre of the ocean or in Florida.To quieten his tripulation Columbus said that they traveled less kilometers than really are, so he wrote two diaries, one was true and the other not.The **17th** of september they arrive to the **Sargasso**,so they thought that they were going to be in land soon.

The travel between Canarias and América lasted **5 weeks**, very little comparative with the travel of Vasco de Gama to India that lasted more or less one year. The merit of Columbus was enormous because these expedition wasn`t accepted by the experts. Beside Columbus only had a compass to guided and by the observation of the stars, like the Polar Star. Some legends said that Columbus known more than he said and that already known about America.

Columbus thought that the distance between Spain and the Asiatic`s coast was about 5000 kilometers, but in truth was four times more.

The 12 of October he arrived one island that they named “El Salvador”, and then he reached to Cuba and La Española. When he was there he thought that was the Asiatic continent and that Cuba was Catay(china).