In Book V of the Cosmographia, Sebastian Münster briefly recounts the first voyage of Columbus to the West Indies. The crew had landed at the island of Hispaniola, their presence causing the islanders to flee into the woods. The Spaniards pursued them and, capturing a woman, brought her back to their ship. They filled her with “delicate meates and wyne,” clothed her in “fayre apparel,” and then let her go. “And as this womanne returned to her companie,” we are told, “some being moued by the lyberalitie declared vnto her, came by greate multitudes to the sea bankes, bringinge golde with them, which they chaunged for earthen pottes, and drinking glasses.” The islanders somehow made known that they fled because they mistook the Europeans for cannibals who lived to the south, and even “made greuous complaynt to our men, of the beastly and fearse maners of these Canibales”: