Had it end far yonder to the westward, or no end?
Had any one ever come to its end?
The cacique thought not, or knew not and assumed deliberation.

Luis and I agreed that we had not met among these Indians any true notion of a continent.

To them Hayti was vast, Cuba was vast, the lands of the Caribs, wherever they were, were vast, and vast whatever other islands there might be.

To them this was the _OEcumene_, the inhabited and inhabitable world, Europe--Asia--Africa?
Their faces stayed blank.

Were these divisions of heaven?
Guacanagari would entertain and succor us.