Columbus says smoke signals on Ayiti and Tortuga show a hunted people

… he entered it with the boats to reach the villages that those he had sent the day before yesterday had seen, and he had the towline run ashore, and the sailors, hauling on it, took the boats up two lombard shots, and he could go no farther for the strength of the river’s current. He saw some houses and the great valley where the villages are, and he said he had never seen a more beautiful thing, through the middle of which valley that river comes. He also saw people at the entrance of the river, but they all took to flight. He says further that those people must be much hunted, since they live in such fear, because wherever they arrive, smoke signals go up at once from the watchtowers throughout the land, and this more on this Isla Española and on Tortuga, which is also a large island, than on the others that he was leaving behind. He named the valley Valle del Paraíso, and the river Guadalquivir, because, so he says, it comes down as large as the Guadalquivir past Córdoba, and along its edges or banks there is a beach of very beautiful stones, and all of it can be walked.