Some of our men suspected more ill than good, and with reason, as the Indians are all beardless, as I have said." This port was not far from the port where the Spanish settlement had been made on the first voyage, so that there was great reason for these anxieties.

They set sail once more for the settlement, and arrived opposite the harbor of La Navidad on the twenty-seventh of November.

As they were approaching the harbor, a canoe came towards them, with five or six Indians on board, but, as the Admiral kept on his course without waiting for them, they went back.
The Spaniards arrived outside the port of La Navidad so late that they did not dare to enter it that night.

"The Admiral commanded two Lombards to be fired, to see if the christians replied, who had been left with the said Guacanagari, (this was the friendly cacique Guacanagari of the first voyage), for they too had Lombards," "They never replied, nor did fires nor signs of houses appear in that place, at which the people were much discouraged, and they had the suspicion that was natural in such a case." "Being thus all very sad, when four or five hours of the night had passed, there came the same canoe which they had seen the evening before.

The Indians in it asked for the Admiral and the captain of one of the caravels of the first voyage.