Strangely made swords of wood and flint, lances, light bucklers and _hatchets of true copper_.
They were strong and fearless, and they seemed to say, "Here before us is great wonder, but wonder does not subdue our minds!" Their language had, it is true, the flow and clink of Indian tongues, yet was greatly different.

We had work to understand.

But they were past masters of gesture.
The Admiral sent for presents.

Again, these did not ravish, though the cacique and his family and the rowers regarded with interest such strange matters.

But they seemed to say, "You yourselves and your fantastic high canoes made, it is evident, of many trees, are the wonder!" But we, the Spaniards, searching now through ten years--long as the War of Troy--for Asia in which that Troy and all wealth beside had been placed, thought that at last we had come upon traces.