At daybreak I weighed anchor and sent the caravel Pinta off to the ESE and the Niña SSE, and I in the Santa Maria steered SE. I gave orders than they should stay on these courses until noon and then come about and sail back to rejoin me. After less than three hours’ sailing we sighted an island to the E.… I have named it Isabela.… I have called the cape here at the western end Cabo Hermoso.…for beautiful it is…so green and fair, like all the land and everything else on these islands; I do not know where to go first, and my eyes never weary of seeing such marvelous vegetation, so different from our own.