e name in Spain. They drew near a mountain upon it
which "seemed to be trying to reach the sky," upon which was a beautiful
waterfall, so white with foam that at a distance some of the sailors
thought it was not water, but white rocks. The Admiral sent a light
caravel to coast along and find harbor. This vessel discovered some
houses, and the captain went ashore and found the inhabitants in them.
They fled at once, and he entered the houses. There he found that they
had taken nothing away. There was much cotton, "spun and to be spun,"
and other goods of theirs, and he took a little of everything, among
other things, two parrots, larger and different from what had been seen
before. He also took four or five bones of the legs and arms of men.
This last discovery made the Spaniards suppose that these islands were
those of Caribs, inhabited by the cannibals of whom they had heard in
the first voyage.

They went on along the coast, passing by some little villages, from
which the inhabitants fled, "as soon as they saw the sails." The Admiral
decided to send ashore to make investigations, and next morning "certain
captains" landed. At dinnertime some of them returned, bringing with
them a boy of fourteen, who said that he was one of the captives of the
people of the island. The others divided, and one party "took a little
boy and brought him on board." Another party took a number of women,
some of them natives of the island, and others captives, who came of
their own accord. One captain, Diego Marquez, with his men, went off
from the others and lost his way with his party. After four days he came
out on the coast, and by following that, he succeeded in coming to the
fleet. Their friends supposed them to have been killed and eaten by the
Caribs, as, since some of them were pilots and able to set their course
by the pole-star, it seemed impossible that they should lose themselves.

During the first day Columbus spent here, many men and women came to the
water's edge, "looking at the fleet and wondering at such a new thing;
and when any boat came ashore to talk with them, saying, 'tayno, tayno,'
which means good. But they were all ready to run when they seemed
in danger, so that of the men only two could be taken by force or
free-will. There were taken more than twenty women of the captives, and
of their free-will came other women, born in other islands, who were
stolen away and taken by force. Certain captive boys came to us. In