Spaniards take captives at Sainte-Croix after a canoe fight with arrows

On Thursday, the 14th of November, he anchored at another island that he called Sancta Cruz; he ordered people to go ashore there and to take some persons to obtain information. They took four women and two children, and on the return with the boat they met a canoe, in which came four Indian men and one Indian woman, who, seeing that they could not flee, began to defend themselves, and the woman also with them, and shot their arrows and wounded two Christians of those in the boat, and the woman with her arrow pierced a shield; they rammed the canoe and overturned it, and took them, and one of them, not losing his bow, swimming shot his arrows almost as strongly as if he had been on land. They saw that one of these had had his generative organ cut off, and the Christians believed it was so that he would fatten better, like a capon, and afterwards the Caribs would eat him. From there, as the Admiral went on his voyage to la Española, he saw many islands together that seemed without number, and to the largest of them he gave the name Sancta Ursula, and to all the others the Eleven Thousand Virgins; …