Columbus meets the Pinta and turns back ten leagues to Monte Cristi

… It is true that within them there are good harbors and good entrances by their channels. After midday the wind blew hard from the east, and he ordered a sailor to climb to the masthead to watch for the shoals, and he saw the caravel Pinta coming with the east wind astern, and she came up to the Admiral; and because there was nowhere to anchor, the water being shallow, the Admiral turned back to Monte-Cristi, retracing the 10 leagues he had sailed, and the Pinta with him. Martín Alonso Pinzón came to the caravel Niña, in which the Admiral sailed, to excuse himself, saying that he had parted from him against his will, and giving reasons for it; but the Admiral says that they were all false, and that with great arrogance and greed he had broken away that night when he parted from him, and that he did not know (says the Admiral) where the arrogance and dishonesty he had used toward him on that voyage had come from; which the Admiral chose to pass over so as not to give room to the evil works of Satan, who wished to hinder that voyage as he had done until then; …