Columbus reaches Guanaja, a small and well peopled island

… with this great storm, and struggling against wind and current, as the ships received from the sea and the winds great blows and assaults, they all opened their seams; the sailors, from the great labors and vigils, and in seas so new, fell sick almost all, and the Admiral himself, from sleeplessness and anguish, fell sick almost to death. At last, with great difficulties, dangers and ineffable labors, he reached and discovered a small island, which the Indians called Guanaja, and which has as neighbors three or four other islands smaller than that, which the Spaniards afterward called the Guanajas; all were well peopled. On this island the Admiral commanded his brother don Bartolomé Colon, Adelantado of this island, who went as Captain of one ship, to land to get news; he landed, taking two boats full of people, and they found the people very peaceful, and of the manner of those of these islands, except that they did not have broad foreheads, and, because there were many pines on it, the Admiral gave it the name the Isle of Pines.