A cacique hails Columbus as Almirante, showing the land is Ayiti

On Saturday, the 23rd of August, a lord or cacique of that land came to the ships, calling «Admiral, Admiral,» and other words, from which the Admiral gathered that the land he had named cabo de Sant Miguel must be all one with this island, because until then he had not known that it was this island of la Española. At the end of this month of August he went to anchor at a small island that lies next to this island, which seems from the sea like a sail, because it is high, and the Admiral called it Alto Velo, and it lies 12 leagues from the small island of Beata, as it is called; he ordered men to climb to the top of that islet to discover the other two ships that had lost sight of him, and as the sailors were returning to embark, they killed eight sea wolves that lay asleep on the sand unawares, and many birds, which did not flee from people because the place was uninhabited, and so waited to be taken or killed; …