The Jamaica canoe is larger and better than the Haytien, but those of this land surpass the Jamaican.

They are long and wide and have in the middle a light cabin.

The rowers chant as they lift and dip their broad oars.
If we were gods to them, yet they seemed gay and fearless of the gods.

I thought with the Admiral that they must have tradition or rumor, of folk higher upon the mount of enlightenment than themselves.

Perhaps now and again there was contact.