Six Spaniards sent to a village are honored as men from heaven

… No less, so he says, did the women do in the other places before they hid themselves, and the Admiral ordered everywhere that all his men be on guard not to anger anyone in anything, and that they take nothing from them against their will, and so they paid them for all they received of it. Finally (says the Admiral) he cannot believe that any man has seen people of such good hearts and so free in giving, and so timid, that they all undid themselves to give the Christians all they had, and when the Christians arrived they ran at once to bring everything. Afterward the Admiral sent six Christians to the village to see what it was, to whom they did all the honor they could and knew how, and gave them all they had, because no doubt remains to them but that they believed the Admiral and all his people had come from heaven: the Indians that the Admiral had with him from the other islands believed the same, although they had already been told what they ought to hold. After the six Christians had gone, certain canoes came with people to beg the Admiral, on behalf of a lord, to come to his town when he left there. …