Columbus finds colored stones on the islet like those of San Salvador

… He held his course so until he entered between the mount and the islet, where he found three and a half fathoms of depth at low water, a most singular harbor, where he anchored. He went with the boat to the islet, where he found fire and traces that fishermen had been there. He saw there many stones painted with colors, or a quarry of such stones with very beautiful natural patterns, fit, so he says, for church buildings or other royal works, like those he found on the islet of San Salvador. He found also on this islet many mastic trees. This Monte-Cristi, so he says, is very beautiful and high and easy to go about on, of very lovely shape, and all the land near it is low, very lovely open country, and it stands up so high that, seen from afar, it looks like an island that does not connect with any land. Beyond the said mount to the east he saw a cape at 24 miles, which he named Cabo del Becerro, from which to the said mount some reefs of shoals run out a good 2 leagues to sea, although it seemed to him that there were channels between them by which one could enter; …