Columbus sights Ayiti, which his Taíno captives call Bohio

… past that one he saw that the coast turned south and took in some of the southwest, and he then saw a very beautiful and high cape on the said course, and it lay 7 leagues from the other: he would have liked to go there, but for the desire he had to go to the island of Babeque, which lay to the northeast according to what the Indians he carried said, he left it: nor could he go to Babeque, because the wind he had was northeast. Going on in this way he looked to the southeast and saw land, and it was a very large island, of which they already had information from the Indians, so he says, which they called Bohío, peopled with people. Of these people, so he says, those of Cuba or Juana and of all those other islands are greatly afraid, because, so he says, they ate men. The said Indians told him other very marvelous things by signs: but the Admiral, so he says, did not believe them, only that the people of that island Bohío must have more cunning and better wit than they to capture them, because they were very faint of heart. …