Twenty-five men in a canoe shoot arrows at Columbus’s music, then trade

… rather, on seeing the playing and dancing, they took it as a sign of war, and as if it were a challenge to them; they all dropped their oars and laid hands to their bows and arrows, each one braced his shield, and they began to shoot a good cloud of arrows at them. Seeing this, the Admiral ordered the festivity of playing and dancing to cease, and some crossbows brought out on deck, and to fire at them with two crossbows, no more than to astound them; and they, once the arrows were shot, went to one of the two caravels, and suddenly, without fear, placed themselves under the stern, and the pilot of the caravel, also without any fear, let himself down from the stern and went into the canoe with them with some things he gave them; and among them he gave a coat and a cap to one of them who seemed a chief man. They put him back in it, and, as in thanks for what he had given them, told him by signs that he should go ashore and that there they would bring him some of what they had. He accepted that he would go, and they went ashore; …