Land was sighted at 2 a.m. on October 12, 1492, by a sailor named Rodrigo de Triana aboard the ship. Columbus called the island San Salvador; the natives called it Guanahani. During his voyage to the Bahamas he encountered weird people, though he said that they were peaceful and nice. In his journal he wrote “Many of the men I have seen have scars on their bodies, and when I made signs to them to find out how this happened, they indicated that people from other nearby islands come to San Salvador to capture them; they defend themselves the best they can.” The Bahamas was one of his first voyages in his life.
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