A man tells Columbus Matinino, east of Carib, holds only women

… and the Indian told him that in it there was very much gold, pointing to the poop of the caravel, which was quite large, and that there were pieces as large as that. He called gold tuob and did not understand it by caona, as they call it in the first part of the island, nor by nozay, as they name it in San Salvador and in the other islands: copper, or a low gold, they call tuob in the Española. Of the island of Matinino that Indian said that it was all peopled by women without men, and that on it there is very much tuob, which is gold or copper, and that it is further east than Carib. He also spoke of the island of Goanin, where there is much tuob. Of these islands, says the Admiral, he had had word from many people for days. The Admiral says further that in the islands passed they were in great fear of Carib, and in some they called it Caniba, but in the Española Carib; and that they must be a daring people, since they go about all these islands and eat the people they can get. …