Captain Vicente Yáñez says he saw rhubarb on the islet Amiga

… and he sent for some colored buskins, which he had him put on, and put on his finger a large silver ring, because they had said that they had seen a silver ring on a seaman, and that he had done much to get it. He was left very cheerful and very content; and two of those kings who were with him came to where the Admiral was with him, and brought the Admiral two great plates of gold, each one his own. And while they were so, an Indian came saying that two days before he had left the caravel Pinta to the east, in a harbor. The Admiral went back to the caravel, and Vicente Anos, her captain, affirmed that he had seen rhubarb, and that there was some on the island Amiga, which is at the entrance of the Mar de Santo Tomé, which was 6 leagues from there, and that he had recognized the stems and root. They say that rhubarb puts out some little stems above ground, and some fruits that look like green mulberries almost dry, and the little stalk near the root is as yellow and as fine as the best color there can be for painting, and under the ground it makes the root like a great pear.