by Andrew Rowen | | Dominican Republic
Guacanagarí had alerted Columbus that the Pinta had been sighted to the east, whereupon Columbus dispatched a letter borne by Guacanagarí’s subjects entreating Martín Alonso Pinzón to reunite with Columbus, but refraining from asserting that Pinzón’s separation had...
by Andrew Rowen | | Dominican Republic
Sailing east, Columbus anchored in the bay Martín Alonso Pinzón had named for himself, renaming it Río de Gracia (River of Grace) in reference to Columbus’s pardon for Martín’s desertion. But the bay still bore Martín’s name a century later (see sketch at December...
by Andrew Rowen | | Dominican Republic, Haiti
I suspect Columbus drew his famous sketch of Española’s northwestern coast on or about January 11, 1493, when the Niña would have progressed to the point where the map’s coastline ends in the east. The original sketch has been in the collection of the Duques de...
by Andrew Rowen | | Dominican Republic
The ships continued east offshore the Samaná Peninsula of the Dominican Republic, home to the Ciguayan people, and anchored there. A combat hostility occurred on January 13. Columbus had dispatched armed sailors to trade. The Ciguayans also were armed and fears and...
by Andrew Rowen | | Dominican Republic
Columbus interpreted conversations with Samanáns aboard the Niña as indicating that islands named Matininó and Carib lay to the east and that Matininó was inhabited only by women and Carib only by men. The Tainos’ oral history included an ancestral hero, Guahayona,...
