According to what I had managed to overhear, the assistants had focused their efforts over several days on the logbook and journal of Columbus' first voyage. He had set sail in 1492 and returned on the 15th of March 1493, but in none of the documents was there any mention of a place called Antilia, much less that it was inhabited by Christians. Then they studied the logbooks of the other two ships: La Pinta and La Niña, but with the same result. Once again the investigation had come to a dead end.
‘Perhaps we are jumping to conclusions,’ announced Thomas while talking with my father and Carlos in my father’s study. ‘This document could have been brought by Portuguese sailors. In the 8th century, Portugal and Spain were a single Christian Visigoth kingdom without any territorial division.
