As they came near the _Esperanza_ we saw that they were somewhat lighter in hue than those Indians to whom we were used.

Moreover they wore bright-colored loin cloths, and twists of white or colored cotton about their heads, like slight turbans, and they carried not only bows and arrows to which we were used, but round bucklers to which we were not used.

They looked at us in amazement, but they were ready for war.
We invited them with every gesture of amity, holding out glass beads and hawk bells, but they would not come close to us.

As they hung upon the blue water out of the shadow of the ship, the Admiral would have our musicians begin loudly to play.

But when the drums began, the fife and the castanets, the canoe started, quivered, the paddlers dipped, it raced back to that shore whence it came, that shore that we thought island.
"Lighter than Haytiens!" exclaimed the Admiral.