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1493-01-06

Pinzón leaves Columbus for Baneque, finds no gold and reaches Ayiti

Haitian

… but the Admiral says that they were all false, and that with great arrogance and greed he had broken away that night when he parted from him, and that he did not know (says the Admiral) where the arrogance and dishonesty he had used toward him on that voyage had come from; which the Admiral chose to pass over so as not to give room to the evil works of Satan, who wished to hinder that voyage as he had done until then; except that, on the word of an Indian among those the Admiral had entrusted to him along with others that he carries in his caravel, who had told him that on an island called Baneque there was much gold, and since he had a fine, light ship, he chose to break away and go off by himself, leaving the Admiral. But the Admiral chose to linger and coast the island Juana and the Española, since it was all one course to the east. After Martín Alonso went to the island Baneque he found, so he says, no gold at all, and he came to the coast of the Española on the report of other Indians who told him that on that island Española, which the Indians called Bohío, there was a great quantity of gold and many mines; …

Source  ·  p. p. 274 Bartolomé de Las Casas, Diario del primer viaje (Las Casas’s abstract of Columbus’s log), in Navarrete, Colección de los viages y descubrimientos, t. I (1825), p. p. 274