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1494-04-25

Guacanagarí hides at Navidad fearing reprisal for the dead Christians

Haitian

… 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; who, in fear, lest perhaps he might come to do him harm for the death of the Christians, of which he was blameless, as was said above, hid himself, although, when the Admiral asked for him of the Indians, his vassals, who came at once to the ships in their canoes, they pretended that he had gone a certain way and would come soon. Finally, he did not care to wait longer but raised his sails on Saturday; he went six leagues from there to the island of la Tortuga, alongside of which he lay becalmed with a heavy sea that came from the east, while the currents, to the contrary, came from the west, for which he was in great labor all night. On Sunday, with a contrary wind, which I believe was northwest, and with the currents coming against his bow from the west, he was forced to turn back and anchor in the river that on the first voyage he called Guadalquivir, of which we spoke above; …

Source  ·  p. t. II, p. 50 Bartolomé de Las Casas, Historia de las Indias (t. II) (1875), p. t. II, p. 50