On the evening of August 3, 1492, Christopher Columbus departed bows from Palos de la Frontera, Spain with three ships: the Santa María, and two smaller caravels, the Pinta and the Santa Clara, nicknamed the Niña.
They sailed west into the unknown ocean until a lookout on the Pinta, Rodrigo de Triana (also known as Juan Rodríguez Bermeo), spotted land about 2:00 on the morning of October 12th, and immediately alerted the rest of the crew with a shout.
The indigenous people bows he encountered, the Lucayan, Taíno, or Arawak, were peaceful and friendly. Noting their gold ear ornaments, Columbus took some of the Arawaks prisoner and insisted that they guide him to the source of the gold.
On November 22nd, Martín Alonso Pinzón took the Pinta on an unauthorized expedition in search of an island called “Babeque” or “Baneque”, which the natives had told him was rich in gold.
On January 13, 1493, Columbus made his last stop of this voyage in the New World. He landed on the Samaná Peninsula, where he met the hostile Ciguayos bows who presented him with his only violent resistance during his first voyage to the Americas.
On February 14, 1493, a storm threatened to capsize the Niña, and, at Columbus’ bows instigation, he and the crew took a series of vows to perform certain acts, including pilgrimages, upon their safe return.
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