the west of San Domingo.


JAMIAICA PASSED.

Thence he proceeded to Jaquimo, on the extremity of the same coast, and
after refitting his ships, set sail for Jamaica on the 14th of July, 1502.
Passing that island, he met with light and varying winds, and contrary
currents, in the archipelago of reefs and keys which he had previously
named the Queen's Garden.


INSUBORDINATION OF CREWS.

For about nine weeks he made so little progress that his crews began to
clamour for the abandonment of the expedition. The ships were worm-eaten
and leaky. Provisions were running short. The seamen had seen their
commander thrust away from what might be called his own door; and the
sight of his powerlessness had strengthened their independence until it
amounted to insubordination. Fortunately, however, before the discontent
broke out into open mutiny, a breeze sprang up from the east, and the
admiral easily persuaded his unruly crews that it was better to prosecute
their voyage than to remain beating about the islets waiting to return
home.

They were soon gladdened by the sight of the pine-clad slopes of the
little island of Guanaja, lying about forty miles from Truxillo, on the
coast of Honduras. Here there appeared a canoe, much more like the ships
of the old world than any they had seen before, manned by twenty-five
Indians who had come from the continent on a trading voyage among the