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People: Johannes Vermeer
Topic: Colonization of the Americas, Danish
Location: Varanasi (Benares) Uttar Pradesh India

Alonso de Ojeda has taken many captives …

Years: 1500 - 1500

Alonso de Ojeda has taken many captives back to Spain, whom he sells as slaves.

Even so, the voyage has not been financially successful, netting some fifteen thousand maravedis in profit to be divided among the fifty-five crew members surviving from the original three hundred.

Note that since forty maravedis per day is an average wage for skilled labor at this time, they could have made more money staying at home.

Returning on the heels of Pedro Alonso Nino's smaller but far more lucrative voyage magnifies this disappointment.

The date of return is disputed: it is usually stated that Ojeda returned in June 1500 but the historian Demetrio Ramos has suggested the earlier date of November 1499.

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