Columbus loses sight of Cabo San Theramo leaving Ayiti and sails east

… The Indians told him that by that way he would find the island of Matinino, which, so he says, was peopled by women without men, which the Admiral would much have liked, so as to take, so he says, five or six of them to the Sovereigns; but he doubted that the Indians knew the course well, and he could not delay because of the danger of the water the caravels were taking in; but, so he says, it was certain that they existed, and that at a certain time of the year the men came to them from the said island of Carib, which, so he says, was 10 or 12 leagues from them, and if they bore a boy they sent him to the island of the men, and if a girl they kept her with them. The Admiral says that those two islands could not be more than 15 or 20 leagues from where he had departed, and he believed they lay to the southeast, and that the Indians had not known how to show him the course. After losing sight of the cape that he named San Theramo, of the Isla Española, which lay 16 leagues to the west of him, he went 12 leagues east by north: he had very good weather.