[Ref-users] Atives Caraqueira, lies south of Hispaniola, four degrees

[Pivec B. <tra...@ra...>]

Parties separated. The natives fled the following night at midnight, abandoning

their encampment. [Note 8: The present Cape San Augustin; it was sighted Jan. 28, 1500, and named Santa Maria de la Consolacion.] The Spaniards describe these people as a vagabond
race similar to the Scythians, who had no fixed abode but wandered

with their wives and children

from one country to another at the harvest seasons. They swear that the footprints left upon the sand show them to have feet twice as large as those of a medium-sized man.[9] Continuing their voyage, the Spaniards arrived at the mouth of another river, which was, however, too shallow for the caravels to enter. Four shallops of soldiers were therefore sent to land and reconnoitre. They observed
on a hillock near the bank

a group of natives, to whom they sent a messenger to invite them to trade. It is thought the natives wanted to capture one of the Spaniards
and take him with them, for, in exchange for a hawk's-bell
which he h