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As it happened Philip de Laval did not sail with Columbus in that first voyage which brought him to San Salvador in the Bahamas.

But he and Battista were in the second expedition, when the ship under the command of the latter was separated by a storm from her consorts, and driven on a westerly course when the others had turned south.

It was believed to be lost, and for two years nothing was heard of its fate.