Here the man had gone, who had been picked up the day before, and he had given such good accounts that all night long the ship had been boarded by almadias, bringing supplies.

Columbus directed some trifle to be given to each of the islanders, and that they should be given "honey of sugar" to eat.

He sent the ship's boat ashore for water and the inhabitants not only pointed it out but helped to put the water-casks on board.
"This people," he says, "is like those of the aforesaid islands, and has the same speech and the same customs, except that these seem to me a somewhat more domestic race, and more intelligent.

* * * And I saw also in this island cotton cloths made like mantles.

* * * "It is a very green island and flat and very fertile, and I have no doubt that all the year through they sow panizo (panic-grass) and harvest it, and so with everything else.