thigh and they, like the others, said they would go and summon him. The
Spaniards made them some presents, and they, too, disappeared.

Early the next morning the Admiral himself, with a party, including Dr.
Chanca, went ashore.

"And we went where the town used to be, which we saw all burnt, and the
clothes of the christians were found on the grass there. At that time
we saw no dead body. There were among us many different opinions, some
suspecting that Guacanagari himself was (concerned) in the betrayal or
death of the christians, and to others it did not appear so, as his town
was burnt, so that the thing was very doubtful."

The Admiral directed the whole place to be searched for gold, as he had
left orders that if any quantity of it were found, it should be buried.
While this search was being made, he and a few others went to look for a
suitable place for a new settlement. They arrived at a village of seven
or eight houses, which the inhabitants deserted at once. Here they found
many things belonging to the christians, such as stockings, pieces of
cloth, and "a very pretty mantle which had not been unfolded since it
was brought from Castile." These, the Spaniards thought, could not have
been obtained by barter. There was also one of the anchors of the ship
which had gone ashore on the first voyage.

When they returned to the site of La Navidad they found many Indians,
who had become bold enough to come to barter gold. They had shown the
place where the bodies of eleven Spaniards lay "covered already by the
grass which had grown over them." They all "with one voice" said that
Canoaboa and Mayreni had killed them. But as, at the same time, they
complained that some of the christians had taken three Indian wives, and
some four, it seemed likely that a just resentment on the part of the
islanders had had something to do with their death.

The next day the Admiral sent out a caravel to seek for a suitable
place for a town, and he himself went out to look for one in a different
direction. He found a secure harbor and a good place for a settlement,
But he thought it too far from the place where he expected to find a
gold mine. On his return, he found the caravel he had sent out. As it
was coasting along the island, a canoe had come out to it, with two
Indians on board, one of whom was a brother of Guacanagari. This man
begged the party to come and visit the cacique. The "principal men"
accordingly went on shore, and