. Young folks library . s island I saw another larger one to thewest, I clued up the sails, after having run all thatday until night, otherwise I could not have reachedthe western cape. I gave the name of Santa Maria dela Concepcion to the island, and almost as the sun setI anchored near the said cape to ascertain if it con-tained gold. For the people I had taken from theisland of San Salvador told me that here they worevery large rings of gold on their arms and legs. Ireally beheved that all they said was nonsense, inventedthat they might escape. My desire was not to passany island without ta
. Young folks library . s island I saw another larger one to thewest, I clued up the sails, after having run all thatday until night, otherwise I could not have reachedthe western cape. I gave the name of Santa Maria dela Concepcion to the island, and almost as the sun setI anchored near the said cape to ascertain if it con-tained gold. For the people I had taken from theisland of San Salvador told me that here they worevery large rings of gold on their arms and legs. Ireally beheved that all they said was nonsense, inventedthat they might escape. My desire was not to passany island without taking possession, so that, onehaving been taken, the same may be said of all. Ianchored, and remained until to-day, Tuesday, when The First Explorations of Columbus 75 I went to the shore with the boats armed, and people, who were numerous, went naked, and werelike those of the other island of San Salvador. Theylet us go over the island, and gave us what we re-quired. As the wind changed to the , I did not. Indian approaching Herd of Deer. like to stay, and returned to the ship. A large canoewas alongside the Nina, and one of the men of theisland of San Salvador, who was on board, jumped intothe sea and got into the canoe. In the middle of thenight before, another swam away behind the canoe. 76 A Book of Famous Explorers which fled, for there never was a boat that could haveovertaken her, seeing that in speed they have a greatadvantage. So they reached the land and left thecanoe. Some of my people went on shore in chaseof them, but they all fled like fowls, and the canoethey had left was brought alongside the caravel Nina,whither, from another direction, another small canoecame, with a man who wished to barter with skeins ofcotton. Some sailors jumped into the sea, because hewould not come on board the caravel, and seized was on the poop of my ship, and saw I sent for the man, gave him a red cap, some smallbeads of green glass, which I put on h
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