Crossword-Solution: NEYBA 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Arriving at the river Neyba, he found an immense army of Indians drawn up there to oppose his progress.

From Deseada or Guadeloupe, however, the Flota steered north-west, passing Santa Cruz and Porto Rico on the north, and sighting the little isles of Mona and Saona, as far as the Bay of Neyba in Hispaniola, where the ships took on fresh wood and water.[26] Putting to sea again, and circling round Beata and Alta Vela, the fleet sighted in turn Cape Tiburon, Cape de Cruz, the Isle of Pines, and Capes Corrientes and San Antonio at the west end of Cuba.

Beyond Samana, with the exception of the poor harbour of Santo Domingo, there are no inlets on the east and south coasts until the Bays of Ocoa and Neyba are reached.

Lastly, the Provinces _Guahaba_, _Haniguagya_ and _Cahay_, are very eminent; as also _Cibao_, which is full of Gold-Mines; and _Lavega Real_, with _Magnana_, which lie between the two great Rivers _Neyba_ and _Yagui_; the stony Countrey _Ciguayos_, and the low Coast _Darica_, where _Christopher Columbus_ built the City _Navidad_, which he afterwards deserted.

Our European oxen, in the hot plains of Mariquita and Neyba gradually lost their hair, at first became _pelones_, and would soon have formed an entirely naked race, if the _calongos_ had not been regularly killed.