Columbus sights Ayiti’s western cape and names it Cabo de San Miguel

… He saw a very beautiful bay with seven small islets on the seashore, and that the island had very high land, which seemed to him to exceed the middle region of the air, where the impressions are congealed; all the land very populous on every side. He judged that it measured 800 miles around, but after he saw it well, on another voyage, he declared that it would be 50 leagues long and 20 wide; he would have liked to discover it and see it more, so well did it seem to him, but for the lack of provisions and the great deal of water the ships were taking in. The weather turned fair for him and he turned east, on the way to this island of la Española, on Tuesday, the 19th of August, and the last land of it, which was a Cape that faces this island, he named the cabo del Farol; and on Wednesday, the 20th of August, he saw the western cape or point of this island of la Española, which he named cabo de Sant Miguel, which is now called the cabo or punta del Tiburon; it lies 25 or 30 leagues from the eastern point of Jamaica.