Some of them paint themselves blackish (and they are of the color of the inhabitants of the Canaries, neither black nor white), and some paint themselves white, and some red, and some with whatever they can get.

And some of them paint their faces, and some all their bodies, and some only the eyes, and some only the nose.
"They do not bear arms nor do they know them, for I showed them swords and they took them by the edge, and they cut themselves through ignorance.

They have no iron at all; their javelins are rods without iron, and some of them have a fish's tooth at the end, and some of them other things.

They are all of good stature, and good graceful appearance, well made.

I saw some who had scars of wounds in their bodies, and I made signs to them (to ask) what that was, and they showed me how people came there from other islands which lay around, and tried to take them captive and they defended themselves.