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Robert Kerr (writer) Indians added that the continent was only
ten days sail from this island; but, from a notion he had
imbibed from the writings of Paul, a physician of Florence, and
though he was in the right, it was not the land he imagined[5]. 
Believing that the Indians would be afraid if many men were to
land, he sent only two Spaniards on shore, along with one of the
Guanahani Indians, and one belonging to Cuba who had come on
board in a canoe.  The Spaniards were Roderick de Xeres, a
native of Ayamonte, and Lewis de Torres, who had been a Jew, and
spoke Hebrew and Chaldee, and some Arabic.  These people were
furnished with toys to barter, and were restricted to six days,
having proper instructions of what they were to say in the name
of their Catholic majesties, and were directed to penetrate into
the country, informing themselves of every thing worth notice,
and not to do any injury to any of the natives.  In the mean
time, the admiral refi