It was true accident.
She had been known at Palos, Cadiz and San Lucar for good ship.

But at Ercilla where we must stop on the Sovereigns' business, a storm had beaten her upon the shore where she got a great wound in her side.

That was staunched, but all her frame was wrenched and she never did well thereafter.

In mid-June we came to an island of the Caribs which they called Mantineo.

Here we rested the better part of a week, keeping good guard against the Caribs, then sailed, and now north by west, along a vast curve, within a world of islands.