He found palms "of another sort," says Las Casas, "from those of Guinea, and from ours." He found the island the "most beautiful which eyes have seen, full of very good ports and deep rivers," and that apparently the sea is never rough there, as the grass grows down to the water's edge.

This greenness to the sea's edge is still observed there.

"Up till that time," says Las Casas, "he had not experienced in all these islands that the sea was rough." He had occasion to learn about it later.

He mentions also that the island is mountainous..