The king gives Columbus a great gold mask and gold jewels

… The Admiral told him by signs that the Sovereigns of Castile would order the Caribs destroyed, and would have them all brought with their hands tied. The Admiral ordered a lombard and a musket fired, and seeing the effect their force produced and what they pierced, he was amazed. And when his people heard the shots they all fell to the ground. They brought the Admiral a great mask, which had large pieces of gold in the ears and in the eyes and in other parts, which he gave him with other jewels of gold that the king himself had put on the Admiral’s head and neck; and to other Christians who were with him he also gave many. The Admiral received much pleasure and consolation from these things that he saw, and the anguish and grief he had suffered and felt over the loss of the ship were tempered, and he recognized that Our Lord had made the ship run aground there so that he would make a settlement there. “And to this end (he says) so many things came to hand that truly that disaster was nothing other than great good fortune. …