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1500-1502.
1500. October. Columbus reaches Cadiz.
Public sympathy at his degradation.
It was in October, 1500, after a voyage of less discomfort than usual, that the ships of Villejo, carrying his manacled prisoners, entered the harbor of Cadiz. If Bobadilla had precipitately prejudged his chief prisoner, public sentiment, when it became k