This they did, at an island to the east, which he named Isabella, the Indians whom he had with him calling it Saomete.

It has been supposed to be the island now called Inagua Grande.
"All this coast," says the Admiral, "and the part of the island which I saw, is all nearly flat, and the island the most beautiful thing I ever saw, for if the others are very beautiful this one is more so." He anchored at a cape which was so beautiful that he named it Cabo Fermoso, the Beautiful Cape, "so green and so beautiful," he says, "like all the other things and lands of these islands, that I do not know where to go first, nor can I weary my eyes with seeing such beautiful verdure and so different from ours.

And I believe that there are in them many herbs and many trees, which are of great value in Spain for dyes (or tinctures) and for medicines of spicery.

But I do not know them, which I greatly regret.

And as I came here to this cape there came such a good and sweet odor of flowers or trees from the land that it was the sweetest thing in the world." He heard that there was a king in the interior who wore clothes and much gold, and though, as he says, the Indians had so little gold that whatever small quantity of it the king wore it would appear large to them, he decided to visit him the next day.