[The Life of Columbus by Arthur Helps]@TWC D-Link bookThe Life of Columbus CHAPTER VI 1/11
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Second Voyage of Discovery. On the 25th of September, all the preparations being complete, the squadron left Cadiz for the Canary Islands, and, after taking in provisions there, sailed from Ferro on the 13th of October.
The voyage was singularly prosperous.
There was but one storm, and that of not more than a few hours' duration; and favouring breezes wafted them over calm seas with a rapidity that brought the ships within sight of land on the 3rd of November, having made the voyage "by the goodness of God, and the wise management of the admiral, in as straight a track as if they had sailed by a well-known and frequented route." It was Sunday, and accordingly the name of Dominica was given to the first island to which the admiral came. ISLAND OF GUADALOUPE. From Dominica, where no aborigines were found, the admiral stood northward, naming one small island Maria Galante, after his own flagship, and calling a second and much larger one Guadaloupe, after a certain monastery in Estramadura.
This island was peopled by a race of cannibals; and, in the houses of the natives, human flesh was found roasting at the fire.
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