Sick Columbus is carried to Isabela after leaving Mona

The Admiral says in a letter that he wrote to the Sovereigns that on this voyage it was his purpose to go to the islands of the cannibals to destroy them, but since the labors and vigils had been so great and so continual, by night and by day without an hour of rest, that he had suffered in this discovery of Cuba and Jamaica, and in going around this Española until he reached this islet of la Mona, especially when he was moving among the many small islands and shoals near Cuba, which he named the Jardin de la Reina, where he went thirty-two days without sleeping, that, having left la Mona and already drawing near the island of Sant Juan, a pestilential stupor suddenly came over him, which totally took from him the use of his senses and all his strength, and he lay as dead, and they did not think he would last a day; for this reason the sailors, with all the diligence they could, left the course that the Admiral was taking or wished to take, and, with all three ships, carried him to la Isabela, where he arrived on the 29th day of September of the same year 1494. …