Columbus fights the Guadalupe islanders, takes women captive and stays nine days

The Admiral believed that these women must have the customs that are told of the Amazons, from things he says he saw and learned there, having questioned the Indian women; he stayed on this island of Guadalupe nine days, during which they made much caçabí bread, and provided themselves with water and firewood, and in order to leave the inhabitants of the island less aggrieved, because, so it is said, that island lay on the passage, he sent the women ashore, with some little things from Castile as gifts, except only the lady and a daughter of hers who, the Admiral said, had stayed of her own will; what sort of will this was God knows, and how consoled and satisfied the inhabitants must have remained, with their enemies carrying off their lady. Finally the Admiral made sail from that island on Wednesday, the 20th day of April, and begins to follow his course, as the contrary winds gave him room; …