Columbus's settlers have built houses, storerooms, a…

Columbus's settlers have built houses, storerooms, a Roman Catholic church, and a large house for Columbus.

He has brought more than a thousand men, including sailors, soldiers, carpenters, stonemasons, and other workers.

Priests and nobles have come as well.

The Spaniards have brought pigs, horses, wheat, sugarcane, and guns.

Rats and microbes come with them.

The settlement takes up more than two hectares.

Some estimates of the Taíno population are as high as one million.

They live on fish and staples such as pineapple, which they introduce to the Spaniards.

The food that they provide is important to the Spaniards.

Columbus will write that there are no finer people in the world.

Columbus's men begin in March 1494 to search, with Taíno Indians, in the mountains of Hispaniola for gold and small amounts are found.