Pedro's Journal — Pam Conrad

Destination Unknown...

Pedro de Salcedo could not have known what adventures lay ahead! His incredible voyage as ship's boy aboard Christopher Columbus' Santa Maria would bring both danger and excitement. Pedro captured his experience between the pages of a journal. If he did not return alive perhaps someone, someday would find it and learn of his incredible journey to the New World.

September 3,1492
The Captain has written in his log that we have taken on enough supplies to last us twenty-eight dabs. That will we eat after twenty-eight dabs if we have not found an Indian port? We can not then turn around and come home. Oh, dear Mother, I hope you are praying for the speeds return of your only living son.

December 25,1492
Cast night, after midnight, all alone and with my own two hands, I sank the Santa CDaria.