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1493-01-11

Columbus names Cabo del Buen tiempo a league from Cabo Francés

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… and at the foot of the mountain there is a very good harbor, and at the entrance it has 14 fathoms, and this mountain is very high and beautiful, and all this is thickly peopled, and the Admiral believed there must be good rivers and much gold. From the Cabo del Ángel east by south it is 4 leagues to a point that he named del Hierro; and on the same course, 4 leagues, lies a point that he named the Punta Seca; and from there on the same course, at 6 leagues, lies the cape that he called Redondo; and from there to the east lies the Cabo Francés, and on this cape, on the east side, there is a large bight, but it did not seem to him to have an anchorage. A league from there lies the Cabo del Buen Tiempo; from this, south by east, there is a cape that he named Tajado, a long league; from this toward the south he saw another cape, and it seemed to him it would be 15 leagues. Today he made a long run, because the wind and the currents went with him. He did not dare to anchor for fear of the shoals, and so he lay to all night.

Source  ·  p. p. 280 Bartolomé de Las Casas, Diario del primer viaje (Las Casas’s abstract of Columbus’s log), in Navarrete, Colección de los viages y descubrimientos, t. I (1825), p. p. 280