The Admiral lifted him, calling him "son." Those of his kind watching from the wood now sent forth a considerable deputation.

There came to us a dozen naked men, fairly tall, well-shaped, skin of red copper, smeared often with paint in bars and disks and crescents.

Their hair was not like the Negro's, the only other naked man our time knew, but was straight, black, somewhat coarse, not bushy but abundant, cut short with the men below the ear.

They are a beardless people.

Our beards are an amazement to them, as are our clothes.