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of another called Boriquen (now St. John de Porto Rico) 
and that the Inhabitants of that Ifland of Guadalupe were 
Caribes or Canibah, and had carried them Prifoners from 
their own Ifland. Soon after the Boats, returning to take 
up fome Chrilfians they had left there, found fix W omen 
with them, who had fled to them from the Caribes, and 
Oame of their own accord aboard the Ships. 
The Admiral to invite the IJlanders would not keep 
them on board, but gave them fome Glafs-beads and 
Bells, and made them be fet afhore againfl: their Wills. 
Yet this was done unadvifedly ; for as foon as they land- 
ed, the Caribes, in Sight of the Chriftians, took away all 
the Admiral had given them : Therefore, either through 
the Hatred they bore the Caribes, or the Fear they had 
conceived of thofe People, a while after when the Boats 
returned for Wood and Water, the faid Women got into 
them, begging of the Seamen to carry them aboard the 
Ships, and giving them to underfband by Signs, that 
thofe People eat Men, and made Slaves of them, and 
therefore they would not ftay with them •, fo that the 
Men yielding to their Intreaties, carried them back to 
the Ships, with two Children and a young Man that had 
made his Efcape from the Caribes, thinking it fafer to put 
themfelves into the Hands of People they never faw, and 
fuch Strangers to their Nation, than to remain among 
thofe they knew to be wicked and cruel, and who had 
eaten their Hufbands and Children-, and as they faid, they 
do not kill and eat the Women, but keep them as Skves. 
One of the Women told them, that towards the South 
there were many Hands, fome inhabited, others not, 
which Are and the other Women called Giamadlic, Cairve- 
‘vo, Hunio, Buriari, Arubiari, Sixibei, but the Continent 
which they faid was very great, both they and the Peo- 
ple of Hifpaniola called Zuanta. 
3. On the loth of Odloher the Admiral weighed An- 
chor, and failed with the whole Fleet along the Coaft of 
the Ifland Guadalupe, towards the North-weft, for Hif- 
paniola, and came to the Ifland Montferat, calling it by 
that Name becaufe of its Heighth, and underftood by the 
Indians he had with him, that the Caribes had depopulated 
it by devouring the Inhabitants. Thence he proceeded 
to St. Mary Redonda, fo called becaufe it is fo round and 
upright, that there feems to be no getting up to it with- 
out Ladders, which the Indians called Ocamaniro. Next he 
came to St. Maria la Antigua, which is -above 28 Leagues 
in extent, ftill holding on his Courfe North- weft. There 
appeared feveral other Hands towards the North, and 
lying North-weft and South-eaft, all very high and full 
of Woods, near one of which he caft Anchor, and called 
it St. Martin, where they took up Pieces of Coral flick- 
ing to the Anchor Hooks, which made them hope they 
fliould find other valuable Things in thofe Countries. 
Though tlie Admiral was very defirous to know every 
thing, yet he refolved to hold on his Courfe towards 
Hifpaniola, to relieve thofe he had left there but the 
Weather being bad, he came to an Anchor on the 13 th, 
in an Hand where he ordered fome Indians to be taken 
to know whereabouts he was. 
As the Boat v/as returning to the Fleet with four Men 
and three Children the Men had taken, they met a Ca- 
noe, in which there were four Men and one Woman, 
who perceiving they could not make their Efcape, flood 
upon their Guard and hit two of the Chriftians with their 
Arrows, which they let fly with fuch Force and Dexteri- 
ty that the Woman fhot a Target quite through; but the 
Boat furioufly boarding the Canoe overfet it, fo that they 
took them all fwimming in the Water ; and one of them 
fwirnming fliot feveral Arrows as it he had been upon dry 
L,and. The Admiral, departing hence, continued his 
Voyage AVeft North-weft, where he found above 50 
Hands, which he left to the Northward ; the biggeft of 
them he called St. Urfula, and the others, the eleven 
thoufand Virgins-, next he came to the Hand which he 
called St. John Baptifi, but the Indians Boriqiten ; and the 
Fleet anchored in a Ba.y on the Weft-fide of it, where 
they took feveral Sorts of Fifli, as Scate, Soles, Pil- 
chards, and Shads, and faw Falcons and Buflres like wild 
Vines, more to the Eaftwards. Some Chriftians went to 
certain Eloiifes, well built after their Fafhion, with a 
Square before them, and a broad Road down to the Sea, 
with Towers made of Cane on bodi Sides, and the Top 
of them curioufly interwoven with Greens : At the End of 
it, next the Sea, was raifed a large Gallery or Balcony, 
that could hold ten or twelve People, lofty and well built. 
On the 2 1 ft the Admiral came up with the North-fide 
of Hifpaniola, and prefently fent afliore, at Samana, one 
of the Indians born in that Part, whom he brought out 
of Spain, being then converted, who offered to reduce 
all the Indians to fubmit to the Chriftians. 
The Admiral continuing his Voyage towards the Town 
of the Nativity ; when he came to Cape Angel, fome In- 
dians went aboard to barter their Commodities with the 
Chriftians ; coming to an Anchor, in the Port of Monte 
Chrijlo ; a Boat that went afliore, found near a River two 
dead Men, one of them feemed to be young, the other 
old ; who had a Rope made of a certain Sort of Broom, 
or fuch Fuz that grows in Spain, called Efparta, about 
his Neck, his Arms extended, and his Hands tyed to a 
Piece of Wood in the Form of a Crofs; but they could 
not difcern whether they were Chriftians or Indians, but 
looked upon it as an ill Omen. The next Day, being 
the 26th, the Admiral fent afhore in feveral Places; the 
Indians came very friendly and boldly to talk with the 
Chriftians, and touching our Mens Shirts and Doublets 
repeated their Names in Spanijh, to fhew they knew how 
thofe things were called, which delivered the Admiral 
from the Jealoufy he had conceived on Account of the 
dead Men : Judging that if tliofe People had mifufed the 
Chriftians left there, they would not have come fo boldly 
aboard the Ships. 
But the next Day when he came to an Anchor, near 
the Town of Navidad, after Midnight a Canoe came to 
the Fleet, and afked for the Admiral, and being bid to 
come on board, for he was there, they would not do it, 
faying they were refolved not to go aboard till they faw 
and knew him. The Admiral therefore was forced to 
come to the Ship-fide to hear them, and then prefently 
two went up with two Mafks, which they gave to the 
Admiral, from the Cazique Guacanagari. They being 
afked by the Admiral concerning the Chriftians left there, 
anfwered, that fome of them died of Diftempers, fome 
parted from their Company, and were gone into other 
Countries ; But, that all of them had four or five Wives, 
though it appeared by their way of fpeaking, that all, or 
moft of them were dead. Yet the Admiral, not thinking it 
fit to take any Notice at that time, fent back the Indians 
with a Prefent made of Tin, and other Baubles for Gu- 
acanagari and themfelves, and fo went away that Night. 
On the 28th, about Evening, the Admiral with all his 
Fleet, came into the Port of Navidad, found it all burnt, 
and no body was feen thereabouts. The next Day, in the 
Morning, the Admiral landed, very much concerned to 
fee the Houfes and Fort burnt, and nothing left belong- 
ing to the Chriftians, but only ragged Clothes and fuch 
like things, as is ufual in a Place plundered and deftroy- 
ed ; and feeing no body to enquire of, the Admiral went 
with fome Boats up a River that was near the Fort. 
Whilft he was going up it, he ordered the Well he had 
made in the Fort to be cleanfed, thinking to find Gold 
in it ; becaufe at his going away, fearing what might hap- 
pen, he commanded thofe he left behind, to throw all 
the Gold they could get into that Well, but nothing was 
found in it ; and the Admiral could lay hold of no In- 
dian, becaufe they all fled from their Houfes to the 
Woods; having therefore found nothing but fome of the 
Chriftians Clothes ; he returned to Navidad, where he faw 
eight of the Chriftians, and three others in the Fields 
near the Town, whom they knew to be Chriftians by their 
Clothes, and they feemed to have been dead about a Month ; 
the Chriftians going about to feek fome other Tokens 
or Writing of the Dead, a Brother of the Cazique Guaca- 
nagari, came with fome Indians to talk with the Admi- 
ral. Thefe could fpeak fome Words in Spanijh, and 
knew the Names of all the Chriftians that had been left 
there, and faid that thofe Spaniards foon began to fall to 
Variance among themfelves, and to take every one what 
Gold, and as many Women as they could; whereupon 
Peter Gutierres and Efcovedo, killed one James, and then 
