Twelve Persons, Men, Women, And
Children, Were Secured; And When About To Sail, The Husband Of One Of The
Women, Who Had Two Children, Came And Solicited To Go Along With His Wife
And Children; And The Admiral Ordered Him To Be Received And Treated
Kindly.
The wind changing northerly, they were constrained to put into a
port called Del Principe, which he only viewed from without, in a
road-stead protected by a great number of islands, about a musket-shot
asunder, and he called this place Mar de Nuestra Sennora, or Our Lady's
Sea.
The channels between the islands were deep, and the shores
beautifully adorned with trees and green herbage. Some of the trees
resembled mastic, and others lignum aloes, some like palms with smooth
green stems, and many other kinds. Landing on these islands, they found no
inhabitants, but there were the appearances of many fires having been made
in them, by fishers; as the inhabitants of Cuba go there for fish and fowl,
which are got in profusion. The Indians eat several filthy things; as
great spiders, worms bred in rotten wood, fish half raw, from which they
scoop out the eyes as soon as taken, and devour them; besides many other
things quite disgusting to the Spaniards. In this employment of fishing,
the Indians occupy themselves during several seasons of the year; going
sometimes to one island and sometimes to another, as people who tire of
one diet change to another. In one of these islands the Spaniards killed
an animal resembling a wild boar, and among many kinds of fish which they
drew up in their nets, one was like a swine, with a very hard skin, the
tail being the only soft part.
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