A boat brings back a basket of rhubarb from the islet Amiga

At midnight he dispatched the boat to go to the islet Amiga to bring the rhubarb. It came back at vespers with a frail basket of it; they brought no more because they had not taken a hoe to dig with: that he took as a sample for the Sovereigns. The king of that land, so he says, had sent many canoes for gold. The canoe that went to seek news of the Pinta came back, with the seaman, and they had not found her. That seaman said that 20 leagues from there they had seen a king who wore on his head two great plates of gold, and as soon as the Indians of the canoe spoke to him he took them off; and he saw much gold on other persons too. The Admiral believed that King Guacanagarí must have forbidden everyone to sell gold to the Christians, so that all of it would pass through his hands. But he had learned the places, as he said the day before yesterday, where there was so much of it that they set no price on it. The spicery too, which (as the Admiral says) is plentiful and worth more than pepper and manegueta. He left those he meant to leave there charged to get as much of it as they could.