Columbus hears of Yamaye, a large island with far more gold

… and the Martín Alonso took half, and the other half was shared out among the people. The Admiral adds, saying to the Sovereigns: “So, my lords and Princes, I know that our Lord miraculously made that ship stay there, because it is the best place on the whole island to make the settlement, and nearest to the gold mines.” He also learned, so he says, that behind the island Juana, on the south side, there is another large island in which there is a far greater quantity of gold than in this one, so much that they gathered pieces larger than beans, and in the Isla Española they gathered the pieces of gold from the mines like grains of wheat. That island is called, so he says, Yamaye. The Admiral also learned, so he says, that there toward the east there was an island where there were none but women only, and this, so he says, he knew from many people. And that this Isla Española, or the other island Yamaye, was near the mainland, 10 days’ journey by canoa, which might be 60 or 70 leagues, and that the people there were clothed.