The Admiral's face glowed.

"It has been wrought by those who know how to work in metals! Tubal-cain!" Moreover, now we found pearls.

There came to us singing a great canoe and in it a plumed cacique with his wife and daughters.

All wore twists of pearls around throat and arms.

They gave them freely for red, blue and green beads, which to them were indeed rubies, sapphires and emeralds .-- Whence came the pearls?
It seemed from the coast beyond and without this gulf.