That Night He Saw An Eclipse Of The Moon, Which He Said
Varied Five Hours And Twenty-Three Minutes From Its Time At Cadiz[20], To
The Place Where He Then Was.
The bad weather, probably owing to the
eclipse, lasted so long, that he was forced to remain at that
Anchorage
till the 20th of the month, all the time under great anxiety for the other
ships which were not able to get into the same place of security, but it
pleased GOD to save them. Having rejoined the other caravels, they all
sailed over to the eastern part of Hispaniola, and thence to a little
island called Mona by the Indians, which lies between Hispaniola and St
John de Boriquen.
The journal of the admiral breaks off at this island, and he does not
inform us of his course from thence to Isabella; but only, that while
going from Mona to St John, the great fatigues he had undergone, together
with his own weakness and the want of proper food, brought on a violent
malady, between a pestilential fever and a lethargy, which presently
deprived him of his senses and memory; whereupon, all the people in the
three caravels resolved to desist from the design he had then in hand of
discovering all the islands in the Caribbean sea, and returned to Isabella,
where they arrived on the 29th of September, five days afterwards[21].
This heavy sickness lasted during five months, but it pleased GOD to
restore him afterwards to health.
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