"At daybreak I had the ship's boat and the boats of the caravels made ready, and I sailed along the island, toward the north-northeast, to see the other port, * * * * what there was (there), and also to see the towns, and I soon saw two or three, and the people, who all were coming to the shore, calling us and giving thanks to God.
Some brought us water, others things to eat.

Others, when they saw that I did not care to go ashore, threw themselves into the sea and came swimming, and we understood that they asked us if we had come from heaven.

And an old man came into the boat, and others called all (the rest) men and women, with a loud voice: 'Come and see the men who have come from heaven; bring them food and drink.' "There came many of them and many women, each one with something, giving thanks to God, casting themselves on the ground, and raising their heads toward heaven.

And afterwards they called us with shouts to come ashore.
"But I feared (to do so), for I saw a great reef of rocks which encircles all that island.

And in it there is bottom and harbor for as many ships as there are in all Christendom, and its entrance very narrow.