Columbus sees a huge valley sown like barley through a mountain gap

… The bight that he mentioned above reaches, so he says, as close to the Puerto de San Nicolás as a lombard shot, so that if that space were cut through or severed it would be left an island, and the rest would measure 3 or 4 miles around. All that land was very high, and of no large trees, only trees like holm oaks and strawberry trees, the very land, so he says, of Castile. Two leagues before he reached the said Cabo Cinquin, he found an agrezuela, like the opening of a mountain, through which he discovered a very great valley, and he saw it all sown as with barley, and he sensed that there must be great villages in that valley, and behind it there were great and very high mountains; and when he reached the Cabo de Cinquin, the Cabo de la Tortuga bore northeast of him, and it would be 32 miles, and off this Cabo Cinquin, a lombard shot away, there is a rock in the sea that rises high, which can be seen well; and the Admiral being off the said cape, the Cabo del Elefante bore east by southeast of him, and it would be 70 miles to it, and all very high land. …