Two or three of this people would go with the gods.
We came to that river mouth that troubled all this sea.

What shall I say but that it was itself a sea, a green sea, a fresh sea?
We crossed it with long labor.

The men of Paria made us understand that their season of rain was lately over, and that ever after that was more river.
Whence did it come?
They spoke at length and, Christopherus Columbus was certain, of some heavenly country.
The dawn came up sweet and red.

The country before us had hills and we made out clearings in the monster forest, and now the blue water was thronged with canoes.

We anchored; they shot out to us fearlessly.