FOURTH VOYAGE 1502 - 1504

FOURTH VOYAGE

• Isabella forgave Columbus and allowed

him to make a fourth voyage.
• He left Spain with four ships and 150
men.
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• Panama
• Nicaragua
• Costa Rica
• Honduras
• Martinique
• St. Lucia
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• Columbus was warned not to stop in Hispaniola

as a new governor Nicholas Ovando was
appointed.
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• He disobeyed the order and stopped to ask for

assistance in repairing his ships and to seek shelter
from an approaching hurricane.

• His true reason though was to claim his share of the

taxes that had been taken from the Tainos
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• Ovando refused to give him entrance.

• He left and stopped in Jamaica- St. Ann’s Bay where his ship ran aground.
He was marooned there for over a year.
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• They were rescued after Diego Mendez went to Hispaniola to seek assistance for them.
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• The Taino supplied them with food while on the

island.
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• Shortly after Columbus returned to Spain Isabella died

(1504)
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• King Ferdinand had little time for Columbus and

ignored his requests for the award of his share of
the riches of the Indies.
• Columbus later died in 1506.
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