Columbus wants to reach Babeque but the northeast wind blocks him

All this night he lay to off Cabo Lindo, where night had overtaken him, to see the land that ran to the east, and at sunrise he saw another cape to the east, 2 leagues and a half off: 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. …