He said he would return with reinforcements (Bodenner). After a rigorous trip back to Spain he then returned to his ship fort and found the men dead and the fort abandon. The natives of neighboring villages attacked the fort and killed them. They were told by the first natives from the first voyage (Bodenner). Instead of lashing out and killing them
He moved to another island and made a settlement called Isabella. After making that settlement he then started trading with the natives who happened to be trading gold quite a bit. He asked several times where they kept getting it. That caused several arguments and several hunts for the natives gold. Both sides began to get aggressive toward each other. The heightened tension was like TNT waiting to go off. Yes, Christopher had better weapons to defend themselves, but it’s not his fault that the Europeans adapted and revolutionized the world at that point. Columbus Is a brave man that took on the unknown. He found the land that would be ours someday. Who knows if he wouldn’t of found it, would you be