Ojeda brought home to Columbus one nugget which weighed nine ounces.
They also brought tidings of the King of Canoaboa, of whom they had heard before, and he is called by the name of Caunebo himself.( *) He was afterwards carried, as a prisoner or as a hostage, on the way to Spain; but died on the passage.
(*) The name is spelled in many different ways.
Columbus was able to dispatch the returning ships, with the encouraging reports brought in by Meldonado and Ojeda, but with very little gold.

But he was obliged to ask for fresh supplies of food for the colony--even in the midst of the plenty which he described; for he had found already what all such leaders find, the difficulty of training men to use food to which they were not accustomed.

He sent also his Carib prisoners, begging that they might be trained to a knowledge of the christian religion and of the Spanish language.

He saw, already, how much he should need interpreters.

The fleet sailed on the second of February, and its reports were, on the whole, favorably received.
Columbus chose for the new city an elevation, ten leagues east of Monte Christi, and at first gave to his colony the name of Martha.