A western lord arrives and many swim out to the ship

… The Admiral left there for the ships, and the Indians cried out, men as well as women and children, that they should not go and that the Christians should stay with them. After they had left, canoes full of them came after them to the ship, to whom he had much honor shown and food given, and other things which they took away. Another lord had also come before from the west, and even swimming came very many people, and the ship was more than a long half league from land. The lord I mentioned had gone back; I sent him certain persons to see him and ask him about these islands; and he received them very well, and took them with him to his town to give them certain large pieces of gold, and they came to a great river, which the Indians crossed swimming: the Christians could not, and so they turned back. In all this region there are very high mountains which seem to reach the sky, so that that of the island of Tenerife seems nothing in comparison with them in height and in beauty, and all are green, full of groves, which is a thing of wonder. …