Columbus stages a lombard shot and skirmish to show power against Caribs

In the morning he went ashore to take leave of King Guacanagarí and to depart in the name of the Lord, and he gave him a shirt of his own, and showed him the force the lombards had and the effect they made, for which he ordered one loaded and fired at the side of the ship that lay aground, because the talk had turned to the Caribs, with whom they are at war; and he saw how far the lombard reached, and how it passed through the side of the ship and the stone went very far out over the sea. He also had a skirmish staged with the people of the ships under arms, telling the cacique not to be afraid of the Caribs even if they came. All this the Admiral did, so he says, so that he would hold as friends the Christians he was leaving, and to put fear in him so that he would fear them. The Admiral took him to eat with him at the house where he was lodged, and the others who went with him. …