"Many islands, or the mainland.

Gates open before us!" "Had the Indian been to these lands ?" No, it seemed, but one had come in a boat, wearing this knob of gold, and he had told them.

Was he living?
No, he was not living.

What kind of a person was he?
Such as us?
Emphatically no.

Not such as us! Much, we gathered, as was the Indian himself.