As There Seemed No Convenient Anchorage On The
East Coast Of Dominica, The Admiral Continued His Course To The Second
Island, Which He Named Marigalante, That Being The Name Of His Own Ship.
He Landed Here With Some Men, And Took Formal Possession In Presence Of A
Notary And Witnesses.
Leaving this island, he discovered another next day,
to which he gave the name of Guadaloupe, to which he sent some boats on
shore to a small town, which was found deserted by the inhabitants, who
had all fled to the mountains.
In searching their houses, a piece of ship
timber which the sailors call a stern-post was found, to the great
surprise of every one, not knowing how it should have come hither, unless
either drifted from the Canaries, or perhaps it might have belonged to the
admirals ship, lost in the first voyage, and might have floated with the
currents from Hispaniola. In this island the Spaniards took the first of
those parrots which are called Guacamayas, which are as large as
dunghill cocks. Some men went on shore again on Tuesday the 5th of
November, who took two youths, who made them understand that they belonged
to the island of Borriquen, since named St Juan de Porto Rico, and
that the inhabitants of Guadaloupe were Caribbees, and kept them to eat,
being canibals. The boats returned for some Spaniards who had remained on
shore, and found with them six women who had fled from the Caribbees; but
the admiral gave them some hawks-bells and set them on shore.
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