Columbus leaves Puerto de San Nicolás with Cabo de la Estrella southwest

At the change of the dawn watch he set sail and left that Puerto de San Nicolás, and sailed with the wind southwest to the northeast 2 leagues, as far as a cape that the Carenero makes, and there remained to him to the southeast a bight, and the Cabo de la Estrella to the southwest, and it was 24 miles from the Admiral. From there he sailed east along the coast as far as the Cabo Cinquin, which would be 48 miles; it is true that 20 of them were east by northeast, and that coast is all very high land and of very great depth: up to the land it is 20 and 30 fathoms, and out as far as a shot of a lombard no bottom is found; all of which the Admiral tested that day along the coast very much to his satisfaction with the wind southwest. The bight that he mentioned above reaches, so he says, as close to the Puerto de San Nicolás as a lombard shot, so that if that space were cut through or severed it would be left an island, and the rest would measure 3 or 4 miles around. …