Columbus’s ships reach Cabo del Engaño, which he named San Rafael

… That night the Admiral saw an eclipse of the moon, and he affirms that there was a difference from there to Cádiz of five hours and twenty-three minutes, for which reason, he said, the hard weather or the said storm lasted so long; he stayed in that harbor, because of the storm, seven or eight days, within which the other two ships entered, and, on the 24th of September, they departed together and reached the cape of this island of la Española that is now called the cabo del Engaño, and the Admiral on his first voyage named it the cabo de Sant Rafael, as was said above. From there they came to a small island that lies ten leagues from this island, and eight from the island of Sant Juan, which the Indians called, as I believe, la Mona, and so the island of la Mona is called today; or perhaps the Admiral gave it that name Mona, for an island near England that has the same name, of which Cornelius Tacitus makes mention, book XIV, page 320, et in Vita Agricolæ, page 693. …