5 mars 1520 - Narvaez arrives to Cozumel possibly carrying smallpox

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Aprox date. Judge Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón in a report to Carlos V, describing the voyage with the Narváez fleet that arrived to Cozumel in March 1520 and then departed for Veracruz. In this report (dated on August 30 1520), Vázquez de Ayllón complaints about the transportation of up to 1000 indigenous people in this trip against his advice, describing how in Fernandina (Cuba), there was already a crisis and a lack of indigenous population due to the smallpox epidemic.

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