It was armor and plume and banner to him.

I thought of our own devices, comforting or discomforting kinships! He had black, lustrous hair, no beard--they pluck out all body hair save the head thatch--high features, a studied look of settled and cold fierceness.

Such was this Carib in Hispaniola.
Presently they put a watch and the rest all lay down and slept, Beltran beside me.

The day had been clear, and now a great moon made silver, silver, the land around.

It shone upon the Spanish sailor and upon the Carib chief and all the naked Manguana men.