Columbus sails west from Isabela and anchors at Monte Cristi

… to these five he entrusted the whole government, and to Mosen Pedro Margarite he entrusted that with the people he had, who were, as I said, 400 men, he should travel over and tread down and subjugate the whole island, giving to all their instructions, as seemed to him at the time to be fitting for the service of God and of Their Highnesses (as he says, speaking of it); and he, with one large ship or nao and two caravels, all three well fitted out, leaving two in the port for the needs that might arise, departed, in the name of the Holy Trinity, he says, on Thursday, the 24th of April of the same year 1494, after eating, on the course to the west, and went to anchor at the port of Monte-Christi. The next day he went to the port of la Navidad, where he had left the 39 Christians, in the land of king Guacanagarí, who had shown him so much humanity and good welcome and charity on the first voyage, notably in the loss of the nao; …