The Spaniards reach the largest, best laid out town yet found

… At night the boats arrived and said that it was a long way to where they came from, and that at the mountain of Caribatan they found many canoes with very many people who were coming to see the Admiral and the Christians from the place where they were going. And he held it certain that if he could spend that feast of Christmas in that harbor, all the people of that island would come, which he now reckoned larger than England, to see them; who all went back with the Christians to the town, which, so he says, they affirmed to be the largest and best laid out in streets of the others passed and found until then, which, he says, lies on the side of the Punta Santa, nearly three leagues to the southeast. And as the canoes go fast under oars, they went ahead to give word to the Cacique, as they called him there. Until then the Admiral had not been able to understand whether they say it for king or for governor. They also say another name for a great man, whom they call Nitayno; …