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He marched them, therefore, to an Indian village called Maima, about a quarter of a league from the ships, intending to plunder the stores remaining on board the wreck, and to take the admiral prisoner. Columbus had notice of the designs of the rebels, and of their approach.
But honour and necessity often lead men to bolder attempts than this. The two canoes took their way along the coast of Jamaica to its eastern point named Aoamaquique by the Indians, from a cacique of that province so called, which is 33 leagues from Maima, where we were.
Continuing obstinate in their wickedness, the mutineers came to a town then named Maima, in the neighbourhood of the ships, at which place the Christians afterwards built a town called Seville.
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