Columbus names a tent-shaped mount Monte Cristi

… and these two run from northwest to southeast, for those reefs were great, and run from Cabo Santo to Cabo de Sierpe, which is more than 6 leagues, and out to sea a good 3, and off Cabo Santo a good 3; and a league off Cabo Santo there are no more than eight fathoms of depth, and inside the said cape on the east side there are many shoals and channels to enter by; and that whole coast runs northwest southeast and is all beach, and the land very flat up to a good 4 leagues inland. Beyond, there are very high mountains, and it is all very thickly settled with large towns, and good people, as they showed themselves toward the Christians. He sailed thus to the east toward a very high mount that wants to look like an island and is not one, because it is joined to very low land; it has the shape of a very beautiful tent, and he named it Monte-Cristi; it lies due east of Cabo Santo, and it will be some 18 leagues. That day, the wind being very slight, he could not reach Monte-Cristi by 6 leagues. He found four sand islets, very low, with a reef that ran far out to the northwest and stretched far to the southeast. …