The letter of Dr. Diego Alvarez Chanca
Subtitle: dated 1494, relating to the second voyage of Columbus to America (being the first written document on the natural history, ethnography and ethnology of America)
By: By A. M. Fernandez de Ybarra.
Contributors: Fernandez de Ybarra, Augustine Marcus, 1857-
Series: Smithsonian miscellaneous collections -- v. 48, art. 26; Publication -- 1698; Publication (Smithsonian Institution) -- 1698.
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Published: 1907
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 457
Subjects: America -- Early accounts to 1600.; West Indies -- Description and travel.
Genres: Early accounts to 1600.
Notes: Cover title.

"Reprinted from Smithsonian miscellaneous collections (quarterly issue), volume 48, part 4."

"Translated from Spanish original ... with explanatory notes, geographical and historical remarks."

First published by M. F. de Navarrete in his "Colección de los viajes y descubrimientos," Madrid, 1825-1837, t. 1, from a ms. preserved in the Academia real de la historia de Madrid.