Ovando reaches Santo Domingo with 32 ships, 2,500 men and Las Casas

… we learned that they remained eight days shut away, without any man seeing or speaking to them. At last it pleased God that, after great perils and labors, they escaped, and all 31 ships gathered at the island of La Gomera; at Gran Canaria he took on another ship for the people who wished to come here from there, for other reasons that I do not remember. There he divided the fleet into two parts, because some of the ships sailed very poorly, and he chose the 15 or 16 swiftest to go with him, and Antonio de Torres was to take the rest. He reached this island, and entered this port of Sancto Domingo, on the 15th day of April; Antonio de Torres, with the other half of the fleet, came twelve or fifteen days later. When the grand commander with his half of the fleet entered by this river, the ships dropped anchor. The Spanish people and residents of this city, which was then a town and stood on the other side of the river, gathered at the bank with great joy. …