They had run down to the sea, but Caonabo's men had caught them, and after hard work killed them.

Juan Lepe and Beltran, passing, saw the five bodies.
I do not think that Caonabo had less than a thousand with him.

He had come in force, and the whole as silent as a bat or moth.

We were to learn over and over again that "Indians" could do that, travel very silently, creatures of the forest who took by surprise.

Well, Guarico was destroyed, and Guacanagari and Guarin fled, and in all Hispaniola were only two Spaniards, and we saw no sail upon the sea, no sail at all!.