He says that the heat of the country is intense, and that if these people lived in a cooler region they would be of lighter color.
On the fourteenth of December he continued his voyage eastward, and on the fifteenth landed on the little island north of Hayti, which he called Tortuga, or Turtle island.

At midnight on the sixteenth he sailed, and landed on Hispaniola again.

Five hundred Indians met him, accompanied by their king, a fine young man of about twenty years of age.

He had around him several counselors, one of whom appeared to be his tutor.

To the steady questions where gold could be found, the reply as steady was made that it was in "the Island of Babeque." This island, they said, was only two days off, and they pointed out the route.