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After a brief stop at Jamaica, Columbus sailed to Central America, arriving at Guanaja (Isla de Pinos) in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras on 30 July. Here Bartolomeo found native merchants and a large canoe, which was described as being long as a galley and filled with cargo.
COX: And you know, the Getty Museum in Southern California had a recent exhibit about Cuba and there is a photograph in that exhibit that claims or maintains that this is the spot where Columbus landed in Cuba. FOWLER: Well, Columbus did land in Cuba, Tony. One of the things that often is not recognized is that Columbus actually made four voyages to the New World. And so, he did but it was not his first landfall. He did set foot in Cuba.