They row with a shovel like a baker's, and it goes wonderfully well.

And if it overturns, immediately they all go to swimming and they right it, and bale it with calabashes which they carry.
(*) Arabic word for raft or float; here it means canoes.
"They brought skeins of spun cotton, and parrots, and javelins, and other little things which it would be wearisome to write down, and they gave everything for whatever was given to them.
"And I strove attentively to learn whether there were gold.

And I saw that some of them had a little piece of gold hung in a hole which they have in their noses.

And by signs I was able to understand that going to the south, or going round the island to the southward, there was a king there who had great vessels of it, and had very much of it.

I tried to persuade them to go there; and afterward I saw that they did not understand about going.( *) (*) To this first found land, called by the natives Guanahani, Columbus gave the name of San Salvador.