Elibron Classics. Replica of 1893 edition by the Hakluyt Society, London. This edition includes illustrations. This is the Journal of the first voyage of Christopher Columbus to the New World. He left Spain on the evening of 3 August 1492, and returned on March 15 1493. This is a detailed account of the voyage, and the discovery of the New World. The Journal was later translated into English by Sir Clements Robert Markham (20 July 1830 – 30 January 1916) an English geographer, explorer, and writer.