The Woman Shot Arrows As
Well As The Men, And One Of Her Arrows Pierced Through A Buckler.
In
boarding, the canoe was overset, and one of the Indians discharged his bow
very vigorously while swimming.
Holding on their course, so many islands
were seen close together that they could not be numbered, or separately
named. The admiral called the largest of these the island of St Ursula,
and the rest the Eleven thousand Virgins. He came afterwards to another
large island, called Borriquen by the natives, but which he named the
island of St John the Baptist. It is now called San Juan de Puerto
Rico. In a bay on the west coast of this island, the seamen took several
kinds of fish in great plenty, such as skate, olaves, pilchards, and some
others. On this island many good houses were seen, all of timber and
thatched, each having a square inclosure and a clean well beaten path to
the shore. The walls of these houses were made of canes woven or wattled
together, and they were curiously ornamented with creeping plants or
greens, as is usual at Valencia in Spain. Near the sea there was a sort of
balcony or open gallery of the same kind of structure, capable to hold
twelve persons: But no person was to be seen about the place, all the
inhabitants having fled into the interior. On Friday the 22d of November,
the first land of Hispaniola was seen on the north side, to which they
went straight over from the extreme point of Porto Rico, the two islands
being fifteen leagues distant.
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