The island apparently followed peace, and its folk greatly feared to give offense to gods from the sky.

Above the ships held a range of pearly clouds, out of which indeed one might make strange lands and forms.
The Indians--Christopherus Columbus called them "Indians"-- pointed from ships to cloud.

They spoke with movements of reverence.

"You have come down--you have come down!" We understood them, though their words were not ours.
Now the greenwood rose close at hand.

The trees differed, the woven thickness of it, the color and blossom, from any wood at home.