Columbus wants to see the passage between Tortuga and Ayiti

… after that its coast runs south. He says he wanted to see that passage between these two islands, to see the Isla Española, which is the most beautiful thing in the world, and because, according to what the Indians he carried told him, that was the way to go to the island of Babeque; they told him it was a very large island, with very great mountains and rivers and valleys, and they said that the island of Bohío was larger than Juana, which they call Cuba, and that it is not surrounded by water, and it seems to give to understand that it is mainland, which is here behind this Española, which they call Caritaba, and that it is a thing without end; and they are almost right that they are harried by a cunning people, because all these islands live in great fear of those of Caniba, and so I say again, as I have said other times, he says, that Caniba is nothing other than the people of the Great Khan, who must be very near here, and will have ships, and they come to capture them, and since they do not return, they believe they have been eaten. …