"So great was the joy among the people, that it was marvellous to hear the shouts of pleasure on all hands.

And for this there was much reason because the people were so much fatigued by the hard life and by the water which they drank that they all hoped for land with much desire." The reader will see that this is the ejaculation of a tired landsman; one might say, of a tired scholar, who was glad that even the short voyage was at an end.

Some of the pilots supposed that the distance which they had run was eight hundred leagues from Ferro; others thought it was seven hundred and eighty.

As the light increased, there were two islands in sight the first was mountainous, being the island of "Dominica," which still retains that name, of the Sunday when it was discovered; the other, the island of Maria Galante, is more level, but like the first, as it is described by Dr.Chanca, it was well wooded.
The island received its name from the ship that Columbus commanded.

In all, they discovered six islands on this day.
Finding no harbor which satisfied him in Dominica, Columbus landed on the island of Maria Galante, and took possession of it in the name of the king and queen.