Tortuga shelters Columbus’s anchorage from the east northeast wind

That night the wind blew hard, east northeast; the sea did not rise much because the Isla de la Tortuga, which lies opposite, hinders and shields it and makes a shelter: so he stayed there that day. He sent the sailors to fish with nets: the Indians took great pleasure with the Christians, and brought him certain arrows of the people of Caniba or of the cannibals, and they are made of the spikes of canes, and they fitted into them some small sticks, fire-hardened and sharp, and they are very long. They showed them two men who were missing some pieces of flesh from their bodies, and gave them to understand that the cannibals had eaten them by mouthfuls: the Admiral did not believe it. He sent certain Christians again to the village, and in exchange for small glass beads they traded for some pieces of gold worked into thin leaf. They saw with one man, whom the Admiral took for governor of that province, whom they called Cacique, a piece of that gold leaf as big as a hand, and it seemed he wished to trade it; …