Columbus names the harbor Puerto de San Nicolao on Saint Nicholas day

… That large island seemed very high land, unenclosed by mountains, level like beautiful plains, and it seems all tilled or a great part of it, and the sown fields looked like wheat in the month of May in the countryside of Córdoba. Many fires were seen that night, and by day much smoke like watchtowers, so that it seemed they were on watch against some people with whom they were at war. The whole coast of this land runs to the east. At the hour of vespers he entered the said harbor, and named it Puerto de San Nicolao, because it was the day of Saint Nicholas, in his honor, and at its entrance he marveled at its beauty and goodness. And although he has much praised the harbors of Cuba, yet without doubt, he says, this one is no less, and rather surpasses them, and none is like it. At its mouth and entrance it is a league and a half wide, and you lay the bow south-southeast, although for its great width the bow can be laid wherever they wish. It runs in this way south-southeast 2 leagues; …