Taíno visit the ships by canoe at night and receive trade goods
… From the entrance to the head there will be five leagues. He saw some lands much tilled, although all are so, and he ordered two men out of the boats to go to a height to see whether there was a village, because from the sea none could be seen; although that night about ten o’clock certain Indians came to the ship in a canoe to see the Admiral and the Christians as a wonder, and he gave them some of the trade goods, with which they were much pleased. The two Christians came back and told where they had seen a large village, a little away from the sea. The Admiral ordered rowing toward the side where the village was until coming near land, and he saw some Indians coming to the edge of the sea, and it seemed that they came in fear, for which reason he ordered the boats stopped and that the Indians he had in the ship should speak to them, that he would do them no harm. Then they came nearer the sea, and the Admiral nearer the land, and after they had wholly lost their fear, so many came that they covered the land, giving a thousand thanks, men as well as women and children: …