AT first, the day before, we had not made out that the Indians had boats.

Later, straying here and there, we had seen them drawn upon the shore and covered with boughs of trees.

They called them "canoes", made them, large and small, out of trunks of trees, hollowed by fire, and with their stone knives.

We had seen one copper knife.

Asked about that, they pointed to the south and seemed to say that yonder dwelled men who had all they wished of most things.
From dark the east grew pale, from pallor put on roses.