The Samaná king sends a gold crown and Columbus takes four youths

… He says also that today he has learned that all the strength of the gold was in the district of the town of La Navidad of Their Highnesses, and that on the island of Carib there was much copper, and in Matinino, although it will be difficult in Carib, because that people, so he says, eats human flesh; and that their island could be seen from there, and that he had resolved to go there, since it is on the way, and to that of Matinino, which, so he says, was peopled entirely by women without men, and to see the one and the other, and to take, so he says, some of them. The Admiral sent the boat ashore, and the king of that land had not come, because, so he says, the town was far off, but he sent his crown of gold, as he had promised; and many other men came with cotton and with bread and ajes, all with their bows and arrows. After they had traded it all, there came, so he says, four young men to the caravel, and they seemed to the Admiral to give so good an account of all those islands that lay toward the east on the same course the Admiral was to take, that he resolved to bring them to Castile with him. …