With them went one of the Guanahani Indians, and one from the neighborhood.
They returned on the night between the fifth and sixth of November.
Twelve leagues off they had found a village of about fifty large houses, made in the form of tents.

This village had about a thousand inhabitants, according to the explorers.

They had received the ambassadors with cordial kindness, believing that they had descended from heaven.
They even took them in their arms and thus carried them to the finest house of all.

They gave them seats, and then sat round them on the ground in a circle.

They kissed their feet and hands, and touched them, to make sure whether they were really men of flesh and bone.
It was on this expedition that the first observation was made of that gift of America to the world, which has worked its way so deep and far into general use.