Read an account of the voyage in Fiske's _Discovery of America_, Vol.

I., pp.
408-442; Irving's _Life and Voyages of Columbus_, Vol.

I., Book III.] [Illustration: Coat of arms of Columbus] During ten days he sailed among these islands.

Then, turning southward, he coasted along Cuba to the eastern end, and so to Haiti, which he named Hispaniola, or Little Spain.

There the _Santa Maria_ was wrecked.
The _Pinta_ had by this time deserted him, and, as the _Nina_ could not carry all the men, forty were left at Hispaniola, to found the first colony of Europeans in the New World.