A young Taíno king says Baneque has much gold, two days away

… The Admiral sent him a present, which, so he says, he received with great state, and that he would be a youth of about 21 years, and that he had an old tutor and other counselors who counseled him and answered for him, and that he spoke very few words. One of the Indians the Admiral had with him spoke with him, told him how the Christians came from heaven, and that he was going in search of gold, and wished to go to the Isla de Baneque: and he answered that it was well, and that on the said island there was much gold, and he showed the Admiral’s constable, who had carried him the present, the way he would have to take, and that in two days he would go from there to it, and that if they needed anything from his land he would give it very willingly. This king and all the others went naked as their mothers bore them, and the women likewise, without any shame, and they are the most handsome men and women they had found up to then: quite white, so that if they went clothed and kept themselves from the sun and the air, they would be almost as white as in Spain, because this land is quite cool and the best that tongue can tell: …