ship, whose watch it was, came out and the Admiral 

 told him and the others to launch the boat which 

 they carried at the stem, and they took an anchor 

 and threw it astern, and he with many others 

 jumped into the boat, and the Admiral thought that 

 they had done that which he had ordered them to 

 do. 



Juan de la Cosa had not obeyed the admiral, however, 

 but had jumped into the small boat and set out for the 

 caravel Nina, which was lying half a league away. 



The caravel would not take them aboard, 

 therein acting rightly, and on this account they re- 

 turned to the ship, but the boat of the caravel 

 reached her first. When the Admiral saw that they 

 were running away and that it was his crew, and 

 that the water was growing shallower and that the 

 ship was now lying broadside to the sea, as he saw 

 no other remedy, he ordered the mast to be cut and 

 the ship to be Hghtened as far as possible, in order to 

 discover if they could draw her off. And as the 

 water became shallower still, he was unable to save 

 her, and she lay on her side, broadside on to the sea, 

 although there was little or no sea running, and then 

 the hatches came open, but tlie ship remained whole. 



The Admiral went to the caravel, in order to 

 place the crew of the ship on the caravel, and as a 

 light breeze was now blowing from land, and there 

 also still remained much of the night and they did 

 not know how far the banks extended, he hung oflF 

 until it was day and then went to the ship from 

 within the line of the bank. 



When morning came, Columbus sent a boat ashore to 

 find his friend Guacanagari: 



who had his town inland, about a league and a half 

 from the said bank. When he heard the news, they say 

 that he wept and sent all his people from the town 



180 Sea Diver 



