Doctor Chanca's narrative is our principal contemporary account of the voyage.

From later authorities much can be added to it, but all of them put together are not, for the purposes of history, equal to the simple contemporaneous statement which we could have had, had Columbus's own journal been preserved.
The great fleet sailed from Cadiz on the twenty-fifth day of September, in the year 1493, rather more than thirteen months after the sailing of the little fleet from Palos of the year before.

They touched at the Grand Canary as before, but at this time their vessels were in good condition and there was no dissatisfaction among the crews.

From this time the voyage across the ocean was short.

On the third day of November, 11 the Sunday after All Saints Day had dawned, a pilot on the ship cried out to the captain that he saw land.