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1493-01-11

Columbus names Monte de Plata above a good harbor and thick population

Haitian

… and from there to the southeast lies the mountain that he named Monte de Plata, and he says it is 8 leagues. From there, from the cape of Belprado, east by south, lies the cape that he called del Ángel, and it is 18 leagues; and from this cape to the Monte de Plata there is a gulf and lands the best and loveliest in the world, all high and beautiful open country, which run far inland, and beyond there is a range that runs from east to west, very large and very beautiful; 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; …

Source  ·  p. p. 279 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. 279