The
Pilot Of That Ship Went Over Into The Canoe, And Gave The Indians Some
Baubles With Which They Were Much Pleased, And Said If They Were On Shore
They Would Have Brought Him Bread From Their Houses.
The account given of
these people was that they were well shaped and whiter than the other
islanders, wearing their hair long like women, bound up with small strings,
and that they covered their nudities with small clouts.
But the people in
the caravel did not detain any of them for fear of giving displeasure to
the admiral.
As soon as the ships had anchored at Punta del Arenal, the admiral sent
the boats on shore for water, and to endeavour to procure some information
respecting the Indians, but they could do neither, that country being very
low and uninhabited, and having no springs or rivulets. He therefore
ordered them next day to dig trenches or pits on the island in hope of
procuring water by that means; and by good fortune, they found these ready
made to their hands and full of excellent water, it being supposed that
they had been dug by the fishermen. Having taken what water they wanted,
the admiral resolved to proceed to another mouth or channel which appeared
towards the north-west, which he afterwards called Boca del Drago, or
the Dragons Mouth, to distinguish it from the one where he then was, to
which he had given the name of Boca del Sierpe, or the Serpents Mouth.
These two mouths or channels, like the Dardanelles, are made by the two
most westerly points of the island of Trinidada, and two other points of
the continent, and lie almost north and south of each other.
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