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　　Saturday, October 13. "As soon as the day broke, many of these mencame to the beach, all young, as I have said, and all of good stature, a veryhandsome race. Their hair is not woolly, but straight and coarse,nike foamposites, like horse hair, and all with much wider foreheads and heads than any other people Ihave seen up to this time. And their eyes are very fine and not small, andthey are not black at all, but of the color of the Canary Islanders. Andnothing else could be expected, since it is on one line of latitude with theIsland of Ferro, in the Canaries.
　　"They came to the ship with almadias,[*] which are made of the trunkof a tree, like a long boat, and all of one piece--and made in a verywonderful manner in the fashion of the country--and large enough forsome of them to hold forty or forty-five men. And others are smaller,down to such as hold one man alone. They row with a shovel like a baker's,and it goes wonderfully well. And if it overturns, immediately they all goto swimming and they right it, and bale it with calabashes which theycarry.
　　[*] Arabic word for raft or float; here it means canoes.
　　"They brought skeins of spun cotton, and parrots, and javelins, andother little things which it would be wearisome to write down, and theygave everything for whatever was given to them.
　　"And I strove attentively to learn whether there were gold. And I sawthat some of them had a little piece of gold hung in a hole which they havein their noses. And by signs I was able to understand that going to thesouth, or going round the island to the southward, there was a king therewho had great vessels of it, and had very much of it. I tried to persuadethem to go there; and afterward I saw that they did not understand aboutgoing.[*]
　　[*] To this first found land, called by the natives Guanahani, Columbusgave the name of San Salvador. There is,imitation rolex watches, however, great doubt whetherthis is the island known by that name on the maps. Of late years theimpression has generally been that the island thus discovered is that nowknown as Watling's island. In 1860 Admiral Fox, of the United States navy,visited all these islands, and studied the whole question anew, visiting theislands himself and working backwards to the account of Columbus'ssubsequent voyage, so as to fix the spot from which that voyage began.
　　Admiral Fox decides that the island of discovery was neither San Salvadornor Watling's island, but the Samana island of the same group. The subject is so curious that we copy his results at more length in the appendix.
　　"I determined to wait till the next afternoon, and then to start for thesouthwest,cheap foamposites, for many of them told me that there was land to the south andsouthwest and northwest, and that those from the northwest came often tofight with them, and so to go on to the southwest to seek gold and preciousstones.
　　"This island is very large and very flat and with very green trees, andmany waters, and a very large lake in the midst, without any mountain.
　　And all of it is green, so that it is a pleasure to see it. And these people areso gentle, and desirous to have our articles and thinking that nothing canbe given them unless they give something and do not keep it back,best replica rolex watches. Theytake what they can, and at once jump [into the water] and swim [away].