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Soon many people of the island assembled.

These which follow are the very words of the Admiral, in his book of his first navigation and discovery of these Indies." October 11-12.

"So that they may feel great friendship for us, and because I knew that they were a people who would be better delivered and converted to our Holy Faith by love than by force, I gave to some of them red caps and glass bells which they put round their necks, and many other things of little value, in which they took much pleasure, and they remained so friendly to us that it was wonderful.
"Afterwards they came swimming to the ship's boats where we were.

And they brought us parrots and cotton-thread in skeins, and javelins and many other things.