All this forest seemed to us of a vastness, as the rivers were vast.

There rang in our ears "New! New!" And at last came an Indian canoe--two--three, filled with light-hued, hardly more than tawny, folk, with cloth of cotton about their middles and twisted around their heads, with bows and arrows and those new bucklers.

But seeing that we did not wish to fight, they did not wish to fight either; and there was all the old amaze.
Gods--gods--gods! We sought the Earthly Paradise, and they thought we came therefrom.
Paria.

We made out that they called their country Paria.
They had in their canoes a bread like cassava, but more delicate, we thought, and in calabashes almost a true wine.

We gave them toys, and as they always pointed westward and seemed to signify that there was _the_ land, we returned after two hours to the ships and set ourselves to follow the coast.