Half way between this island and Santa Maria, he met with "a man alone in an almadia which was passing" (from one island to the other), "and he was carrying a little of their bread, as big as one's fist, and a calabash of water and a piece of red earth made into dust, and then kneaded, and some dry leaves, which must be a thing much valued among them, since at San Salvador they brought them to me as a present.( *) And he had a little basket of their sort, in which he had a string of little glass bells and two blancas, by which I knew that he came from the Island of San Salvador.

* * * He came to the ship; I took him on board, for so he asked, and made him put his almadia in the ship, and keep all he was carrying.

And I commanded to give him bread and honey to eat, and something to drink.
(*) Was this perhaps tobacco?
"And thus I will take him over to Fernandina, and I will give him all his property so that he may give good accounts of us, so that, if it please our Lord, when your Highnesses send there, those who come may receive honor, and they may give us of all they have." Columbus continued sailing for the island he named Fernandina, now called Inagua Chica.

There was a calm all day and he did not arrive in time to anchor safely before dark.

He therefore waited till morning, and anchored near a town.