Columbus finds the Navidad fort burned and the Spaniards dead

… seeing no person to ask, the Admiral, with certain boats, went up a river that was near there, and left orders to clean out a well he had left made in the fortress, to see whether the Christians had hidden some gold there, but nothing was found; the Admiral likewise found no one to ask, because the Indians all fled from their houses. They found, however, in them some garments of the Christians, and he turned back. They found near the fortress seven or eight persons buried, and near there, in the field, three others, and they recognized them as Christians because they were clothed, and they seemed to have been killed a month before, or little more. As they went about there looking for writings or other things from which they might get information about what had happened, there came a brother of king Guacanagarí, with some Indians who already knew how to speak and understand our language somewhat, and who named by their names all the Christians who had remained in the fortress, and also through the interpreters among the Indians whom the Admiral brought from Castile, gave him news and an account of the whole disaster.