sentence1: When Columbus discovered the island late in his career, he called it the best, the most fertile, the sweetest, the most charming country in the world and named it Matinino, probably after Saint Martin (or, some say, as an approximation of Madinina), a name which the French later adapted to Martinique.
sentence2: The island is still being called Matinino, as the French kept the namesake. 