Guacanagari, it seemed, since the sighting of the ships, had made collection on his part.

He gave enough gold to make lustful many an eye looking upon that scene.
The women brought food and set before the Spaniards in the house.
I found Guarin and presently we came to be standing without the entrance--they had no doors; sometimes they had curtains of cotton--looking upon that strange gathering in the little middle square of the town.

So many Spaniards in the palm shadows, and the women feeding them, and Alonso de Ojeda's hand upon the arm of a slender brown girl with a wreath of flowers around her head.

Father Buil was within with the Admiral, truculently and suspiciously regarding the idolater who now had left the hammock and seemed as well of a wound as any there! But here without were eight or ten friars, gathered together under a palm tree, making refection and talking among themselves.

One devout brother, sitting apart and fasting, told his beads.
Said Guarin, "I have been watching him.