They backed with great deference from us.
We went with these Indians to their town, evidently the town which we sought.

And indeed it was larger, fitter, a more ordered community than any we had met this side Ocean-Sea, though far, far from travelers' tales of Orient cities! It was set under trees, palm trees and others, by the side of a clear river.

The huts were larger than those by the sea, and set not at random but in rows with a great trodden square in the middle.

From town to river where they fished and where, under overhanging palms, we found many Canoes, ran a way wider than a path, much like a narrow road.

But there were no wheeled vehicles nor draught animals.