Seven Spaniards wound two men at Samaná and put fifty to flight

… and they afterward came up to the boat, and the people of the boat went ashore and began to buy the bows and arrows and the other weapons from them, because the Admiral had so ordered. When two bows were sold they would give no more; instead they made ready to rush upon the Christians and seize them. They went running to take their bows and arrows where they had set them aside, and came back with cords in their hands, so he says, to tie up the Christians. Seeing them come running at them, the Christians being on guard, because the Admiral always warned them of this, the Christians rushed upon them, and gave one Indian a great slash on the buttocks, and another they wounded in the breast with an arrow; and, seeing this, that they could gain little, although the Christians were no more than seven and they fifty and more, they took to flight, so that not one remained, one leaving his arrows here and another his bow there. The Christians, so he says, would have killed many of them if the pilot who went as their captain had not prevented it. …