"Land To Hispaniola Island”
Santa Maria is anchored in a small bay (off present-day Cape Salinas) located at the southernmost tip of the southern coast of Hispaniola Island (the large island which includes present-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic). The entire crew filled all 12 lifeboats previously prepared. Taking the necessary equipment and some food, weapons and ammunition with them, they set out to the shore by lifeboats to go ashore.
As day was about to dawn, on a tropical summer morning in August, the crew of Santa Maria, with the first lights of the sun, came ashore again off the southern coast of Hispaniola, the largest group of islands closest to the Americas, months after lifeboats. The sparkling turquoise-colored temperate waters of the Caribbean Sea swayed the huge hull o
