Pinzón trades sixteen days at Rio de Gracia, keeping half the gold

… it lies 3 leagues on the southeast side; he anchored at the mouth, which is a good anchorage, on the east side. To get inside there is a bar that has no more than two fathoms of water, and very narrow; inside is a good enclosed harbor, except that it has much shipworm, and the caravel Pinta, in which Martín Alonso sailed, was going badly damaged by it, because, so he says, he stayed there trading for sixteen days, where they traded for much gold, which was what Martín Alonso wanted. He, after he learned from the Indians that the Admiral was on the coast of the same Isla Española, and that he could not miss him, came to him. And, so he says, he wanted all the people of the ship to swear that they had been there only six days. But, so he says, his wickedness was so public a thing that he could not hide it. He, says the Admiral, had made rules that half of the gold that was traded for or obtained should be his, and when he came to leave there he took four Indian men and two girls by force, whom the Admiral ordered to be given clothing and put back ashore to go to their homes; …