ust, who died, whom thus wounded they carried to the
ships."

Another account of this fight says that the canoe was commanded by one
of the women, who seemed to be a queen, who had a son "of cruel look,
robust, with a lion's face, who followed her." This account represents
the queen's son to have been wounded, as well as the man who died. "The
Caribs differed from the other Indians in having long hair; the others
wore theirs braided and a hundred thousand differences made in their
heads, with crosses and other paintings of different sorts, each one
as he desires, which they do with sharp canes." The Indians, both the
Caribs and the others, were beardless, unless by a great exception. The
Caribs, who had been taken prisoners here, had their eyes and eyebrows
blackened, "which, it seems to me, they do as an ornament, and with that
they appear more frightful." They heard from these prisoners of much
gold at an island called Cayre.

They left San Martin on the same day, and passed the island of Santa
Cruz, and the next day (November 15) they saw a great number of islands,
which the Admiral named Santa Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins.
This seemed "a country fit for metals," but the fleet made no stay
there. They did stop for two days at an island called Burenquen. The
Admiral named it San Juan Bautista (Saint John Baptist). It is what
we now call Porto Rico. He was not able to communicate with any of the
inhabitants, as they lived in such fear of the Caribs that they all
fled. All these islands were new to the Admiral and all "very beautiful
and of very good land, but this one seemed better than all of them."

On Friday, the twenty-second of November, they landed at the island of
Hispaniola or Hayti which they so much desired. None of the party who
had made the first voyage were acquainted with this part of the island;
but they conjectured what it was, from what the Indian captive women
told them.

The part of the island where they arrived was called Hayti, another part
Xamana, and the third Bohio. "It is a very singular country," says Dr.
Chanca, "where there are numberless great rivers and great mountain
ridges and great level valleys. I think the grass never dries in the
whole year. I do not think that there is any winter in this (island) nor
in the others, for at Christmas are found many birds' nests, some with
birds, and some with eggs." The only four-footed animals found in these
islands were what Dr. Chanca