THE ships were the _Consolacion_, the _Margarita_, the _Juana_ and the _San Sebastian_, all caravels and small ones, the _Consolacion_ the largest and the flagship.

The _Margarita_, that was the Adelantado's ship, sailed badly.

There was something as wrong with her as had been with the _Pinta_ when we started from Palos in '92.
The men all told, crews and officers and adventurers, were less than two hundred.
Pedro de Terreros, Bartholomew Fiesco, Diego Tristan, Francisco de Porras were the captains of the caravels Juan Sanchez and Pedro Ledesma the chief pilots.

Bartholomew Fiesco of the _Consolacion_ was a Genoese and wholly devoted to the greater Genoese.

We had for notary Diego Mendez.