The Life of Columbus

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" They coasted along this island for several days, to the place where theAdmiral had left his settlement. While passing the region of Xamana, they set ashore one of the Indians whom they had carried off on thefirst voyage. They "gave him some little things which the Admiral hadcommanded him to give away. " Another account adds that of the ten Indianmen who had been carried off on the first voyage, seven had alreadydied on account of the change of air and food. Two of the three whom theAdmiral w...as bringing back, swam ashore at night. "The Admiral cared forthis but little, thinking that he should have enough interpreters amongthose whom he had left in the island, and whom he hoped to find thereagain. " It seems certain that one Indian remained faithful to theSpaniards; he was named Diego Colon, after the Admiral's brother.
On the day that the captive Indian was set ashore, a Biscayan sailordied, who had been wounded by the Caribs in the fight between the boat'screw and the canoe. A boat's crew was sent ashore to bury him, and asthey came to land there came out "many Indians, of whom some wore goldat the neck and at the ears.


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