However, I did not wish to pass by any island without taking possession of it.
"And I anchored, and was there till today, Tuesday, when at the break of day I went ashore with the armed boats, and landed.
"They (the inhabitants), who were many, as naked and in the same condition as those of San Salvador, let us land on the island, and gave us what we asked of them.

* * * "I set out for the ship.

And there was a large almadia which had come to board the caravel Nina, and one of the men from we Island of San Salvador threw himself into the sea, took this boat, and made off; and the night before, at midnight, another jumped out.

And the almadia went back so fast that there never was a boat which could come up with her, although we had a considerable advantage.

It reached the shore, and they left the almadia, and some of my company landed after them, and they all fled like hens.
"And the almadia, which they had left, we took to the caravel Nina, to which from another headland there was coming another little almadia, with a man who came to barter a skein of cotton.