Columbus anchors off a new village where 500 Taíno gather

… in mid gulf he found a canoa with one Indian alone in it, at which the Admiral marveled, how he could keep himself above the water with the wind so strong. He had him brought into the ship, him and his canoe, and having made much of him gave him glass beads, hawks’ bells and brass rings, and carried him in the ship as far as land, to a village which lay 16 miles from there beside the sea, where the Admiral anchored and found good anchorage on the beach beside the village, which seemed to be newly built, because all the houses were new. The Indian went at once with his canoe to land, and gives news of the Admiral and of the Christians, that they were good people, although they already had such news from what had passed at the other places where the six Christians had gone, and soon there came more than 500 men, and a little after came their king, all on the beach close to the ships, because they were anchored very near land. Then one by one, and many by many, they came to the ship without bringing anything with them, although some wore some grains of very fine gold in their ears and in their noses, which they then gave willingly. …