At dinnertime some of them returned, bringing with them a boy of fourteen, who said that he was one of the captives of the people of the island.

The others divided, and one party "took a little boy and brought him on board." Another party took a number of women, some of them natives of the island, and others captives, who came of their own accord.

One captain, Diego Marquez, with his men, went off from the others and lost his way with his party.

After four days he came out on the coast, and by following that, he succeeded in coming to the fleet.

Their friends supposed them to have been killed and eaten by the Caribs, as, since some of them were pilots and able to set their course by the pole-star, it seemed impossible that they should lose themselves.
During the first day Columbus spent here, many men and women came to the water's edge, "looking at the fleet and wondering at such a new thing; and when any boat came ashore to talk with them, saying, 'tayno, tayno,' which means good.