At dawn on October 12, 1492 Rodrigo de Triana, one of the spotters of La Pinta, announced to his anguished companions the news that they had expected so much, there was land on the horizon. The expedition that Columbus commanded had left Palos on August 3 and after the first attempt of mutiny the night of October 6 to 7 the situation on board was really complicated. But the blood did not reach the river. They arrived on an island (probably one of the Bahamas) that the natives called Guanahani, took possession of it in the name of the Catholic Monarchs and baptized it as San Salvador. The Genoese sailor had discovered America, although he was convinced that he had reached the eastern end of Asia. He was the first Spaniard to sighted the new continent from his lookout post in the Pinta caravel. This first sighting is narrated in Cristóbal Colón's logbook, summarized by Fray Bartolomé de las Casas. The newspaper jumps immediately from October 11 to 13, 1492, understanding the events narrated as of October 12: "And because the Caravela Pinta was more veranda and vaulted in front of the Admiral, he found land and made the signs that the Admiral This land was first seen by a sailor named Rodrigo de Triana [...] Rodrigo, who spotted a small island in the Lucaya archipelago (now known as the Bahamas), in the Caribbean Sea. as Guanahani and was baptized by Christopher Columbus as San Salvador, in honor of Jesus Christ and the salvation that involved finding land after that long journey.Walling Island, located in the Bahamas itself, was proposed in the nineteenth century as the island where Columbus landed in 1492. In this way, in 1925 the honor was withdrawn to another island that was previously considered the original San Salvador and is now called Cat Island, to put on the island Watling the name of San Salva dor, which today retains. Finally, in 1986 the National Geographic Society pointed out that the island sighted and where Columbus landed for the first time in America is Cayo Samana, another small island also in the Bahamas. Cayo Samaná is a small elongated island, now uninhabited, 16 kilometers long and approximately 3 kilometers wide. The hour of discovery according to Christopher Columbus's log would be "two hours past midnight", this is 2 o'clock in the morning of October 12, 1492, when they were two leagues (marinas). The already mentioned book General and Natural History of the Indies by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, of 1535, in his Book II, chapter V, contributes a lot to this moment. In it is narrated that first, in the night, Columbus saw candles on the ground, warning a couple of crew. Later, and even at night, a sailor watchman of Lepe sighted the candles. Then he tells us that the next morning, at dawn, a sailor named Rodrigo de Triana was the first to see the land. Also, move the discovery to the morning of October 11, instead of placing it on October 12. And that same day that Admiral Colom said these words, he really knew that he was close to earth, in the countenance of the ceilings of the heavens; and admonished the pilots that, if in case the caravels were separated, by some fortuitous event, the one of the other, that after that trance they would run towards the part or wind that ordered them, to return to be reduced in their preserves. And as the night came, he ordered the candles to be drowned and the low ratchets to run alone; and walking thus, a sailor of those who were in the captain, a native of Lepe, said: "Earth! ... Earth! ..." And then a servant of Colom, called Salcedo, replied saying: "That said the Admiral, my lord "; and Colom said: "It's been a while since I've said it and seen that fire on the ground." And so it was: that on a Thursday, at two o'clock after midnight, the Admiral called a hidalgo named Escobedo, a pastry chef from the Catholic King, and told him that he saw fire. And another day tomorrow, in enlightening, and at the time that the day before had said Colom, from the nao capitana was seen the island that the Indians call Guanàhaní, from the part of the Trotamontana or North. And the one who first saw the land, when it was daylight, was called Rodrigo de Triana, on eleven days of October of the year already said of one hundred and four hundred and ninety-two. [...] Turning to history, that island that I saw first, as I said, is one of the islands that say of the Lucayos. And that sailor who said first that he saw fire on the ground, later turned back to Spain, because he was not given the good news, was disgusted with aquesto, he passed in Africa and he denied the faith. This man, as I heard Vicente Yáñez Pinzón and Hernán Pérez Mateos, who were in this first discovery, was from Lepe, as I said. Land without reward. According to the diary of Columbus's first voyage, the King and Queen of Spain promised a reward of 10,000 maravedis to the first one who saw land. As the trip was much more extensive than initially anticipated, Columbus also offered a silk doublet as a reward. Rodrigo de Triana sighted land at 2 o'clock in the morning of October 12, 1492 (according to Columbus's logbook, since according to Historia General and Natural de las Indias, 1535 historiographical book, Rodrigo de Triana sees land at dawn, the sighting corresponding at 2 in the morning to a lepero on October.