Columbus anchors in the great bay beside a very small islet

… but because it was very early in the morning, and so as not to lose way, because for most of the time easterlies blow there and he then had a north-northwest wind, he did not wish to stop further. He went on his way east to a very high and very beautiful cape, all of sheer cut rock, which he named Cabo del Enamorado, which lay to the east of that harbor, which he named Puerto Sacro, 32 miles; and on reaching it he discovered another, much more beautiful and higher and round, all of rock, just like the Cape of Saint Vincent in Portugal, and it lay 12 miles east of the Enamorado. After he came abreast of the Enamorado he saw that between it and another (he saw) there was formed a very great bay, which is 3 leagues across, and in the middle of it there is a very small islet; the depth is great at the entrance right up to the land: he anchored there in 12 fathoms, sent the boat ashore for water, and to see whether they could get speech with the people, but the people all fled. He anchored also to see whether all that was one land with the Española; …