 Haiti's government estimated the death toll to be 230,000.It is said that a captain named de Saint-André named the area in 1706, after he sailed into the bay in a ship named Le Prince, hence "Port-au-Prince" to mean, "Port of the Prince".However, the port and the surrounding region continued to be known as "Hôpital", but the islets in the bay had already been known as "Les îlets du Prince" as early as 1680.