Eight ships rode in the harbor and six were sunk.

Aguado's four caravels and two others.

Many seamen drowned; some got ashore half-dead.
"How will I get away?
I must to Spain!" cried Aguado.

The Admiral said, "There is the _Nina_." The _Nina_ must be made seaworthy, and in the end we built a smaller ship still which we called the _Santa Cruz_.

Aguado waited, fretting.
Christopherus Columbus kept toward him a great, calm courtesy.
It was at this moment that Don Bartholomew found, through Miguel Diaz, the mines of Hayna, that was a great river in a very rich country.