For this he gave a brass basin, one of his two shirts, and a short jacket.

On this canoe turned their after fortunes.
Columbus refitted her, put on a false keel, furnished her with a mast and sail.
With six Indians, whom the chief had lent him, Diego Mendez, accompanied by only one Spanish companion, set sail in this little craft for San Domingo.

Columbus sent by them a letter to the sovereigns, which gives the account of the voyage which the reader has been following.
When Mendez was a hundred miles advanced on his journey, he met a band of hostile savages.

They had affected friendship until they had the adventurers in their power, when they seized them all.

But while the savages were quarreling about the spoils, Mendez succeeded in escaping to his canoe, and returned alone to his master after fifteen days.
It was determined that the voyage should be renewed.