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CHRISTOPHER
COLUMBUS.
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CHAPTER VII.
VOYAGE
ALONG THE SOUTH
SIDE
OF H1SPANIOLA, AND RE
TURN TO ISABELLA. [1494.]
O N the 19th of August, Columbus lost sight of the eastern ex tremity of Jamaica, to which he gave the name of Cape Farol, at present called Point Morant.
Steering eastward, he beheld,
on the following day, that long peninsula of Hispaniola, known by the name of Cape Tiburon, but to which he gave the name of Cape San Miguel.
He was not aware that it was a part of the
island of Hayti, until, coasting along its southern side, a cacique came off on the 23d of August, and called him by his title, ad dressing him with several words of Castilian.
The sound of these
words spread joy through the ship, and the weary seamen heard with delight that they were on the southern coast of Hispaniola. They had still, however, many toilsome days before them.
The
weather was boisterous, the wind contrary and capricious, and the ships were separated from each other.
About the end of August,
Columbus anchored at a small island, or rather rock, which rises singly out of the sea opposite to a long cape, stretching southward from the centre of the island, to which he gave the name of Cape Beata.
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