Then, the natives were lighter coloured, more astute, and braver than those of the islands.

Their hair, too, was different.
Then, again, he meditated upon the immense volume of fresh waters which descended into the Gulf of Paria.

And, in fine, the conclusion which his pious mind came to, was, that when he reached the land which he called the island of Gracia, he was at the base of the earthly Paradise.

He also, upon reflection, concluded that it was a continent which he had discovered, the same continent of the east which he had always been in search of; and that the waters, which we now know to be a branch of the river Orinoco, formed one of the four great rivers which descended from the garden of Paradise.
Very different were the conjectures of the pilots.

Some said that they were in the Sea of Spain, others, in that of Scotland, and, being in despair about their whereabouts, they concluded that they had been under the guidance of the Devil.