After exploring the island of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba" id="mwJQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Cuba">Cuba</a> (which he had mistaken for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan" id="mwJg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Japan">Japan</a>) for gold, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus" id="mwJw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Christopher Columbus">Christopher Columbus</a> lands on an island he names <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispaniola" id="mwKA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Hispaniola">Hispaniola</a>.<sup about="#mwt28" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-3"}}' id="cite_ref-3" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_6#cite_note-3" id="mwKQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 3;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwKg">[3]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-3"><cite about="#mwt25" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFFisher1997">Fisher, Robert John (1997). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=KHRvEAAAQBAJ" id="mwBs8" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBtA">The Economic Aspects of Spanish Imperialism in America: 1492—1810</i></a>. Liverpool, U.K.: Liverpool University Press. p.<span id="mwBtE" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>16. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBtI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBtM" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780853235521" id="mwBtQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780853235521"><bdi id="mwBtU">9780853235521</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt25" class="Z3988" id="mwBtY" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Economic+Aspects+of+Spanish+Imperialism+in+America%3A+1492%E2%80%941810&amp;rft.place=Liverpool%2C+U.K.&amp;rft.pages=16&amp;rft.pub=Liverpool+University+Press&amp;rft.date=1997&amp;rft.isbn=9780853235521&amp;rft.aulast=Fisher&amp;rft.aufirst=Robert+John&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DKHRvEAAAQBAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+6"></span></span>