The two keys to the east are covered with guano; white boobies hold the larger one, and black boobies the other; neither intermingles.
The island is now uninhabited, but arrow heads and stone hatchets are sometimes found; and in places there are piles of stones supposed to have been made by the aborigines.

Most of the growth is scrubby, with a few scattered trees.
The Nassau vessels enter an opening through the reef on the south side of the island and find a very comfortable little harbor with from two to two and a half fathoms of water.

From here they send their boats on shore to "strip" guano, and cut satin, dye woods and bark.
When Columbus discovered Guanahani, the journal called it a "little island." After landing he speaks of it as "bien grande," "very large," which some translate, tolerably, or pretty large.

November 20, 1492 (Navarette, first edition, p.

61), the journal refers to Isabella, a larger island than Guanahani, as "little island," and the fifth of January following (p.