Note 220-1 — JOURNAL OF THE FIRST VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS (continued 3)

So called because the summit is always covered with white or silver clouds. Las Casas, I. 432. A monastery of Dominicans was afterwards built on Monte de Plata, in which Las Casas began to write his history of the Indies in the year 1527. Las Casas, IV. 254. (Markham.)