* * * And there they found one man who had on his nose a piece of gold which was like half a castellano, on which there were cut letters.( *) I blamed them for not bargaining for it, and giving as much as was asked, to see what it was, and whose coin it was; and they answered me that they did not dare to barter it." (*) A castellano was a piece of gold, money, weighing about one-sixth of an ounce.
He continued towards the northwest, then turned his course to the east-southeast, east and southeast.

The weather being thick and heavy, and "threatening immediate rain.

So all these days since I have been in these Indies it has rained little or much." Friday, October 19.

Columbus, who had not landed the day before, now sent two caravels, one to the east and southeast and the other to the south-southeast, while he himself, with the Santa Maria, the SHIP, as he calls it, went to the southeast.

He ordered the caravels to keep their courses till noon, and then join him.