On the shore of the Taino village, a chieftain adorned with feathers hurriedly emerged from a wooden house. While sending an envoy to seek help from the "Great Chief of Higüey," he stood beside the tribe's "Zemi Totem," hoarsely organizing the tribe's strong men.
Soon, two to three hundred of the Taino strong men, under the organization of a dozen tribal warriors, gathered nervously, raising stone spears and carrying slings and hunting bows. Their equipment was quite similar to the Caribbean warriors, a result of years of mutual learning through combat.
However, they had not mastered the unique poison arrow technique of the Caribs, as their daily farming and fishing needs did not require such short-term frog poison. As the defending side, they could not decide the time and place of the battle, and on the relatively more cultivated Puerto Rico Island, poison frogs in the jungle were harder to find.
