The fleet sights Dominica on a Sunday and finds no east port

… then he saw another island on the right hand of la Dominica, then they saw another, and many began to appear. All giving infinite thanks to God, they sing the Salve regina, as it is usually sung on ships when they sail, at early nightfall; the scents of the flowers of the islands begin to come out, at which all marveled; they see infinite green parrots, which go about together like thrushes in their season, with the great clamor they always make. They reckoned that from la Gomera, in the twenty-one days in which they sighted la Dominica, they would have gone up to 750 leagues, or a few more. There seemed to be no port in la Dominica, on the east side, and for this reason the Admiral crossed to another island, which was the second to which he gave a name, and it was Marigalante, because the ship in which the Admiral sailed was so called. He went ashore there with the people of his ship, and took lawful possession for the sovereigns of Castile and León, before all, and authorized it with the attestation of a notary.