Mean while _Columbus_ return’d in safety to _Spain_, and was receiv’d with great joy, King _Ferdinand_ making him Admiral of the Sea, and sending his Brother _Bartholomew_ Governor to _Haytin_, now call’d _Hispaniola_. The Gold, Parrots, Mastick, Aloes, the strange Bread _Jucca_, whose extracted Juyce is rank Poyson, but the Body makes good Meal, which kneaded and bak’d, yields a fine Manchet and wholesom Food, they look’d upon with great delight and admiration; but two of the Natives being naked, with Gold Rings through their Noses and Ears, Ornaments with them of high esteem, and signifying their no mean Quality, the People old and young came in Throngs to wonder at, never weary of gazing upon them. But the King, encourag’d by this Success, took no dilatory Course, but suddenly, and before any could expect, built fourteen stout Carvels, and three Frigats, and as soon mann’d them with twelve hundred Soldiers, besides a great number of Artificers of all sorts, with their Wives and Children, freighting them with Horses, Swine, Goats, Cattel for Breed, all sorts of _European_ Corn to sow, Fruit-Trees and Vines to plant, and some Priests to instruct and convert the Natives to their Religion. [Sidenote: _The Barbadoes_, _St. Christophers_, _&c._] [Sidenote: The Huts of the _Cannibals_.] The second of _September_, _Anno 1493._ they set sail from _Cadiz_, and Anchor’d before _Ferreo_, the last and furthest of the _Canary-Islands_, where they could get no Water, but what dropp’d from the Dew hanging on Trees into Troughs. After that, _Columbus_ came on the one and twentieth day amongst the _Caribby-Islands_, where he dropp’d Anchor before one, which he call’d _Dominico_; but finding it desolate, set sail further, and discover’d several other Coasts, where he likewise found nothing but very great Porcupines or Hedg-hogs, and sweet-smelling Trees. Steering forward, he found the Coasts of the _Cannibals_, which inhabited along the Shore in little Huts or Hovels, built round of Wood, and stak’d about on the out-side with long Poles, like _Palisado_’s: They have also Posts within, which are shorter, pleited and fastned together with Cotton, or long Roots of Trees, plyant like our Osiars, over which they hang Cloths painted with horrible Figures and strange Representations: The Roofs rise like our Canopy’d Tents, highest in the middle, cover’d with Palm-Tree Leaves to keep off the Rain: At the Entrances hang two Hairy Images on Poles, not for Religion sake, but Ornament: Their Bed-steads being high from the Ground, are fill’d with a kind of Straw; and in long Hovels fitted for that purpose they store their Sugar. [Sidenote: Island _Guadalupe_.]