text: 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 .
  
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  Matinino is an island discovered by Columbus late in his career .