Portugal’s King John II summoned Columbus to meet northeast of Lisbon, and Columbus brought along at least two of the Taínos. The route to meet John wove through Lisbon, shown below c.1598 (a century later) in Civitates Orbis Terrarum:
As dramatized in Encounters Unforeseen, the Taínos would have been astounded by the relative technological advancement of European society, particularly church and home construction, varied food supplies, and European weaponry. They would have been shocked by the animals encountered and used for transportation, labor, and food—their world knew neither horse, cattle, nor pig. They also would have discovered black-skin African and dark-skin Canary Island slaves openly used in labor and possibly penned in the large slave market then near the central wharf area. Likely they grimly feared a European intent to subjugate their people.