The king weeps over the wreck and his people unload the cargo

… and as the waters still went on falling it could not be remedied, and she heeled over toward the cross sea, although the sea was little or nothing, and then the conventos opened, and not the ship. The Admiral went to the caravel to put the ship’s people in safety on the caravel; and as a light breeze was already blowing off the land, and much of the night still remained, and they did not know how far the banks ran, he lay to until it was day, and then went to the ship from inside the reef of the bank. Before this he had sent the boat ashore with Diego de Arana, of Córdoba, constable of the fleet, and Pedro Gutiérrez, steward of the Royal Household, to let the king know, he who had sent on Saturday to invite him and beg him to come with the ships to his harbor, and who had his town ahead, some league and a half from the said bank. When he learned of it, they say, he wept, and he sent all the people of his town with very large canoes, and many of them, to unload everything from the ship; and so it was done, and everything on the decks was unloaded in a very short space: such was the great readiness and diligence that king showed. …