הילה ומעוז
Bartolomé de las Casas noted the event in his abstract of Columbus's log: "A sailor named Rodrigo de Triana saw this land first, although the Admiral, at the tenth hour of the night, while he was on the sterncastle saw a light, although it was something so faint that he did not wish to affirm that it was land. But he called Pero Gutierrez, the steward of the king's dais, and told him that there seemed to be a light, and for him to look: and thus he did and saw it". It was calculated that the twelve leagues, that the crew ran since 10 p.m., with the two leagues distance off the land, essentially correspond to the distance and location of Watling's Island from Guanahani. As such, it was presumed that the light was on Watling's Island, which was passed by Columbus.[3] Judging by the speed of the ships, provided in naval journal, L. T. Gould supposed that the light "must have been some 35 miles or so eastward of the landfall, and well to windward of it".
