It is said, in books of authority, that Columbus begged them to sail west only three days more.

But in the private journal of the tenth he says simply: "The seamen complained of the length of the voyage.

They did not wish to go any farther.

The Admiral did his best to renew their courage, and reminded them of the profits which would come to them.

He added, boldly, that no complaints would change his purpose, that he had set out to go to the Indies, and that with the Lord's assistance he should keep on until he came there." This is the only passage in the journal which has any resemblance to the account of the mutiny.
If it happened, as Oviedo says, three days before the discovery, it would have been on the eighth of October.