"As soon as the day broke, many of these men came to the beach, all young, as I have said, and all of good stature, a very handsome race.

Their hair is not woolly, but straight and coarse, like horse hair, and all with much wider foreheads and heads than any other people I have seen up to this time.

And their eyes are very fine and not small, and they are not black at all, but of the color of the Canary Islanders.

And nothing else could be expected, since it is on one line of latitude with the Island of Ferro, in the Canaries.
"They came to the ship with almadias,( *) which are made of the trunk of a tree, like a long boat, and all of one piece--and made in a very wonderful manner in the fashion of the country--and large enough for some of them to hold forty or forty-five men.

And others are smaller, down to such as hold one man alone.