An account of the antiquities of the Indians : chronicles of the New World encounter

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An account of the antiquities of the Indians, diligently gathered by Fray Ramón, a man who knows their language, by order of the admiral

Concerning the place from which the Indians have come and in what manner

How the men were separated from the women

How the indignant Guahayona resolved to leave, seeing that those men whom he had sent to gether the digo for bathing did not return

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How afterwords there were once again women on the said Island of Hispaniola, which before was called Haiti, and the inhabitants call it by this name, and they called it and the other islands Bohío

How Guahayona returned to the said Cauta, from where he had taken the women

How there were once again women on the aforementioned Island of Haití, which is now called Hispaniola

How they found a solution so that would be women

How they say the sea was made

How the four identical sons of Itiba Chaubaba, who died in childbirth, went together to take Yaya's gourd, which held his son Yayael, who had been transformed into fishes, and none dared to seize it except Deminán Caracaracol, who took it down, and everyone ate their fill of fish

Concerning what happened to the four brothers when they were fleeing from Yaya

Concerning what they believe about the dead wandering about, and what they are like, and what they do

Concerning the shape they say the dead have

Concerning whence they deduce this and who leads them to hold such a belief

Concerning the observances of these Indian behiques, and how they practice medicine and teach the people, and in their medicinal cures they are often deceived

Concerning what the said behiques do

How the aforesaid physicians have at times been deceived

How the relatives of the dead man take revenge when they have got an answer by means of the spell of the drinks

How they find out what they want from the one whom they have burned, and how they take revenge

How they make and keep the zemis made of wood or of stone

Concerning the zemi Buya and Aiba, who they say was burned when there was war, and afterwards, when they washed him with yuca juice, he grew arms, and his eyes reappeared, and his body grew

Concerning Guamarete's zemi

Concerning another zemi called Opiyelguobirán, which was in the possession of a preeminent man called Sabananiobabo, who had many subjects under his command

Concerning another zemi whose name was Guabancex

Concerning what they believe about another zemi was Baraguabael

Concerning the things they affirm were told by two principal caciques of the Island of Hispaniola, one called Cacibaquel, father of the aforesaid Guarionex, and the other Guamanacoel

How we left to go to the country of the aforesaid Mabiatué

that is, I, Fray Ramón Pané, a humble friar, Fray Juan de Borgoña of the Order of Saint Francis, and Juan Mateo, the first man to receive the holy baptismal water on the Island of Hispaniola

Concerning what happened to the images and the miracle God worked to show his power