At two hours after midnight appeared the land, at a distance of two leagues. They handed… — Christopher Columbus
At two hours after midnight appeared the land, at a distance of two leagues. They handed all sails and set the treo, which is the mainsail without bonnets, and lay-to waiting for daylight Friday, when they arrived at an island of the Bahamas that was called in the Indians' tongue Guanahaní.
In the original Spanish
A dos horas despues de media noche parecio la tierra de la cual estarian dos leguas Amanaron todas las velas, y quedaron con el treo, que es la vela grande sin bonetas, y pusieronse a la cords, temporizando hasta el dia viernes, que llegaron a una islita de los Lucayos, que se llamba en lengua de indios Guanahani.
1492
★ 3.8Referring to an island located in what is now the Bahamas.
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Columbus, Christopher. The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America 1492-1493, translated by Oliver Dunn and James E. Kelley, Jr. University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.
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Columbus, Christopher. Journal entry. 12 Oct. 1492.