At two hours after midnight appeared the land, at a distance of two leagues. They handed all sails and set the treo, which is the mainsail without bonnets, and lay-to waiting for daylight Friday, when they arrived at an island of the Bahamas that was called in the Indians' tongue GuanahanÃ.
Referring to an island located in what is now the Bahamas.
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Original Citation
Columbus, Christopher. Journal entry. 12 Oct. 1492.
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Current Citation
Columbus, Christopher. The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America 1492-1493, translated by Oliver Dunn and James E. Kelley, Jr. University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.
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