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where returned, she told what good entertainment she had 

 had to her companions; whereupon several of the Islanders 

 came aboard of the vessels in boats made of one piece of 

 wood, where I hey bartered gold for beads, pieces of glass, 

 knives, shells and other trilles. The King of Guacanarilla 

 gave testimony of peculiar inclination to the Spaniards, hel- 

 ping them to save up the remaining goods of the wreck, and 

 informed them that some rivers flowing from the tops of 

 high mountains washed down the gold amongst the sand, 

 notwisthtanding a strange prophecy had been told to these 

 Islanders, namely : that bearded men out of remote countries 

 should destroy their Gods, take their land, and massacre their 

 children. He also told them what made them fly and betake 

 them to their heels at their arrival, because they were often- 

 times surprised by the Cannibals, who snatched up all they 

 could lay hold on : their boys and stripplings they gelded, 

 cooping and cramming them up, as we our capons, for 

 feast ; the young and well grown men, they chopped to 

 pieces, salted and barrelled up. Young women they pre- 

 served for breed, and old ones they made slaves. 



These Cannibals were so terrible to the inhabitants of Hayti, 

 that a thousand dared not venture to engage against ten of 

 them , hut would run every way dispersed like flocks of 

 sheep before the wolf. 



Lastly their King permitted the Spaniards to build a lodge 

 wherein thirty or forty of them might shelter ; but indeed, 

 so taking possession, in right, of the King of Spain. 



Meanwhile, Columbus returned in safety to Spain, and was 

 received with great joy, King Ferdinand making him Ad- 

 miral of the Sea, and sending his brother Bartholomew^ Go- 

 vernor to Hayti. The gold, parrots, aloes, yucca, and other 

 products of the island were looked upon with great delight 

 and admiration, but two of the natives being naked, with 

 gold rings through their nose and ears, ornaments with them 

 of high esteem, and signifying their no mean quality, the 

 people old and young came in throngs to wonder at, never 

 weary of gazing upon them* and so ended the first voyage 

 of Columbus, resulting in the discovery of America. 



In September 1493, Columbus undertook his second voyage 

 and discovered the Caivibean Islands, some of which he cal- 

 led Dominica, Guadalupe, Monseratto Redondo, San-Martin, 

 Santa-Cruz, San-Juan. Jamaica and Cuba. He returned to 

 Spain in March 1495. Early in 1495, he sailed for the third 

 time, and discovered Paria. t!ie actual Para, and Cumana. 



On the ninth of May 1504, he sailed from Spain for the 

 fourth time, and discovered the Islands of Guamixa and 

 Veragua, probably what we know now, as the Bocas del Toro. 



Shortly after, he returned to Spain, where tie died the 8 tb 

 of May 1506. 



