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1494-07-22

Columbus coasts Jamaica westward as Taíno paddle out with food

Haitian

With these dangers and continual afflictions he reached the Cape that he had at first named cabo de Cruz, on the 18th of July, where the Indians gave him a very good welcome and presently brought him some of their caçabí bread, and fish, and fruits of the land, and everything they had, with great joy and pleasure, and there they rested and recovered for two or three days. And on Tuesday, the 22nd of July, though always with contrary winds, which did not let him return by a straight course to la Española, he turned back toward the island of Jamaica; he followed its coast down toward the west, and as they went, all of them looking and praising God at the sight of such freshness and so beautiful and happy a land, they saw the whole coast and land full of villages and excellent harbors, from league to league; infinite Indians followed the ships with their canoes, bringing them and serving them with many things to eat, as if they were all their fathers and the Indians their children. …

Source  ·  p. t. II, pp. 65, 66 Bartolomé de Las Casas, Historia de las Indias (t. II) (1875), p. t. II, pp. 65, 66