The eye of an angry God!

Shipwrecked in June 1503, in what is now Jamaica, Christopher Columbus and his fellows waited for rescue ships to arrive for over six months. Initially hospitable, the natives were angered as the castaways had outstayed their welcome, and so cut off their supplies, thus starving them. On 27 February 1504, Columbus threatened the natives that God will send them an angry sign. And in three days, the moon turned red! Fraught, the natives brought food for the travellers. But was it really God’s angry eye that the natives had seen?