A few at a time, the villagers returned, and fearfully enough at first.

But we had harmed nothing, and what greatness and gentleness was in us we showed it here.
Presently all thought they were at home with us, and that heaven bred the finest folk! Our people of Hispaniola, subjects now, since the planting of the flag, were taller, handsomer, we thought, than the Cubans, and more advanced in the arts.

Their houses were neat and good, and their gardens weeded and well-stocked.

The men wore loin cloths, the women a wide cotton girdle or little skirt.

We found three or four copper knives, but again they said that they came from the south.