Columbus leaves Yaquimo for the mainland on 14 July

Let us leave this island in the state that we have described, and let us take up again the history of the voyage of the Admiral, which we left. In chapter 6 and chapter 5 we told how he departed from near this port of Sancto Domingo, fleeing the great storm which he said beforehand was to come, and went to save himself, after all his four ships had suffered great damage and danger from the same tempest, which came on soon after, at the port Hermoso, or Escondido; having left there, and taken the way of the West, he came to the port of Yaquimo, which he called del Brasil, which is 80 leagues from this one of Sancto Domingo. From here he set out on the 14th of July, and, wishing to go toward the mainland, he had many calms, so that for want of wind he could make no headway; and he drew near some islets, near the island of Jamaica, which had no water, but they dug some pits, near the sea, and found fresh water, of which they took what was needed for the service of the four ships. …