He asks for "his Cipango," as Herrera slily puts it; and the natives at once point out to him the direction where that is.

They thought he meant Cibao, where afterwards the best mines of gold were found.
FURTHER EXPLORATIONS.
The admiral, bent on discovery, and especially on finding the terra firma, which adjoined "his" India, did not stay long anywhere.

Proceeding southwards from San Salvador, he discovered an island, or rather a group of islands, to which he gave the name of Santa Maria de la Concepcion; he then discovered Cuba, and coasted along the northeastern part of that island; and afterwards, in due course, came to Hispaniola, called by the natives Hayti, in which island he landed upon the territory of King Guacanagari where he was received most cordially.
Various conjectures have been made as to the different results which would have followed, both for the New and for the Old World, if Columbus had steered a little to the northward, or the southward, of the course which he actually took.

One thing, however, is obvious, that in arriving at Hispaniola he came to a central point, not only of the West Indies, but of the whole of the New World, and a point, therefore, most felicitously situated for the spreading of future discovery and conquest.
INSUBORDINATION OF MARINERS.
It may be mentioned here, that Martin Alonzo Pinzon had wilfully parted company from the admiral while on the coast of Cuba: covetousness being probably the cause of this most undutiful proceeding.

But, indeed, there is another instance of the insubordination of the mariners, which makes the wonder only still greater how Columbus could have brought them across the Atlantic at all.
WRECK OF ADMIRAL'S VESSEL.
One evening the admiral, after paying a visit to Guacanagari, seeing the sea quite calm, betook himself to rest.