While on board the <i id="mwRQ"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niña_(ship)" id="mwRg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Niña (ship)">Niña</a></i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus" id="mwRw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Christopher Columbus">Christopher Columbus</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus's_letter_on_the_first_voyage" id="mwSA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Columbus's letter on the first voyage">writes an open letter</a> (widely distributed upon his return to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal" id="mwSQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Portugal">Portugal</a>) describing his discoveries and the unexpected items he came across in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World" id="mwSg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="New World">New World</a>.<sup about="#mwt45" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"}}' id="cite_ref-7" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_15#cite_note-7" id="mwSw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 7;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwTA">[7]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"><cite about="#mwt42" class="citation web cs1" id="CITEREFIfe,_Barry_W.">Ife, Barry W. <a class="external text" href="http://www.ems.kcl.ac.uk/content/pub/b002.html" id="mwBss" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Introduction to the Letters from America"</a>. King's College London. <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190203183036/http://www.ems.kcl.ac.uk/content/pub/b002.html" id="mwBsw" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">Archived</a> from the original on 3 February 2019<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwBs0">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwBs4">13 February</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt42" class="Z3988" id="mwBs8" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=Introduction+to+the+Letters+from+America&amp;rft.pub=King%27s+College+London&amp;rft.au=Ife%2C+Barry+W.&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ems.kcl.ac.uk%2Fcontent%2Fpub%2Fb002.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFebruary+15"></span></span>