"Caribs? Wake him up and bring him over. Let me have a look! Mm, and that blond-haired, blue-eyed White-Skinned Demon too—wake him up and bring him over with him!..."
At the very beginning, Xiu Maoying had not attached much importance to the "blond demon" they had hauled up. Instead, he had always been extremely interested in the various Carib tribes of the frontier islands.
These dyed-haired, tattoo-faced tribes rode in small boats and raided with savage ferocity. They were extremely hostile to outsiders and would try to attack anyone who did not belong to the Carib tribes, showing the same enmity toward the kingdom's great ships. Because of that, the kingdom's propaganda about the White-Skinned Demons had stopped at Puerto Rico, the Great Island of Valor, and had not gone any farther east to the frontier island chain occupied by the various Carib tribes.
Now, this new batch of demons had clearly come into contact with the various Carib tribes, though he did not know what the exact situation was. Were they hostile to each other, or had they colluded together?
With these thoughts in mind, Xiu Maoying boarded a caravel and soon arrived at the waters where Chabo's Stone Spear had anchored.
The golden sun shone straight down into the clear seawater, and the fish and coral reefs in the sea could all be seen indistinctly. At this moment, around the moored Stone Spear, there were more than a dozen Taino small boats. Twenty or thirty sailors were scattered in the water; now and then someone dove down and surfaced again, pointing toward a certain spot on the sea.
This part of Gonave Bay in the western Haitian depression lay right within the shallow continental shelf of the Caribbean, in the shallowest nearshore waters. As Haiti was a large