Columbus tests Taíno tales of black traders bearing guanin spears

… and that afterwards they would sail, if it pleased Our Lord, to the west, and from there he would pass to this Española, on which way he would see the opinion of King don Juan, aforesaid. And that he intended to test what the Indians of this Española said, that there had come to it, from the south and southeast, black people, who carry the points of their spears of a metal they call guanin, of which he had sent the assay to the Sovereigns, where it was found that of thirty-two parts, eighteen were gold, six silver, and eight copper.