1991), 9-10. See also Sale, The Conquest of Paradise, 51-52.
42 Las Casas, History of the Indies, 21.
43 Sale, The Conquest of Paradise, 23- 26.
44 Ibid., 344; J. B. Russell, Inventing the Flat Earth (New York: Praeger,
1991).
45 By 2003 the descendant textbook Holt American Nation dropped the mutiny
altogether.
46 Sale, The Conquest of Paradise, 171, 185, 204-14, 362; John Hebert, ed.,
1492: An Ongoing Voyage (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1992),
100.
47 Hans Koning, Columbus, His Enterprise (New York: Monthly Review
Press, 1976), 39-40; Sale, The Conquest of Paradise , 238.
48 Pietro Barozzi, “Navigation and Ships in the Age of Columbus,” Italian
Journal 5, no. 4 (1990): 38-41.
49 Samuel Eliot Morison, The Great Explorers (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1978), 397-98. Elsewhere Morison gives talk of revolt a bit more
credence, but Koning, Columbus, His Enterprise, 50, pooh-poohs the mutiny.
The best source for the trip, Columbus’s journal, now lost but summarized by
Bartolomé de Las Casas, offers this account: “Here [10/10] the men could bear
no more and complained of the length of the voyage. But the Admiral
encouraged them in the best way he could, giving them hope of the advantage
they might gain from it [riches]. He added that however much they might
complain, having come so far, he had nothing to do but go to the Indies, and he
would go on until he found them.” Sale, The Conquest of Paradise, 60,
believes the story has little historical credibility. Indeed, by October 9, they
were following large flocks of birds, which they believed (correctly) would
take them toward land, making an October 10 mutiny threat quite unlikely.
50 Bill Bigelow, “Once Upon a Genocide... ,” in Rethinking Schools 5, no. 1
(October-November 1990): 7-8.
51 Salvador de Madariaga, Christopher Columbus (New York: Frederick
Ungar, 1967 [1940]), 203-4.
52 The Journal of Christopher Columbus, translated by Cecil Jane (New
York: Bonanza, 1989), 171.