The king’s nephew names Cibao among eastern lands with infinite gold

At sunrise a nephew of the king came to the caravel, very young, and of good understanding and good spirit (as the Admiral says); and as he was always working to learn where the gold was gathered, he asked everyone, for by signs he now understood something; and so that youth told him that four days’ journey away there was an island to the east called Guarionex, and others called Macorix and Mayonic and Fuma and Cibao and Coroay, in which there was infinite gold; the Admiral wrote these names down; and a brother of the king learned what the youth had told him, and scolded him, as the Admiral understood. At other times too the Admiral had understood that the king was working to keep him from learning where the gold came from and was gathered, so that he would not go to trade for it or buy it elsewhere. But there is so much of it, and in so many places, and in this same Isla Española (says the Admiral), that it is a marvel. When it was already night the king sent him a great mask of gold, and sent to ask him for a washbasin and a pitcher: the Admiral believed he asked for them to have another made like them, and so he sent them to him.