Spaniards report a very wide river running through the valley

… but the Admiral says he does not know how they can be of better disposition than the others, giving to understand that all those they had found in the other islands were of very good disposition. As to beauty, the Christians said there was no comparison, in the men as in the women, and that they are whiter than the others, and that among the others they saw two young women as white as could be in Spain. They also said of the beauty of the lands they saw, that the best of Castile bear no comparison with them in beauty and goodness, and the Admiral saw it so, by those he has seen and by those he had before him, and they told him that those he saw bore no comparison with those of that valley, nor did the countryside of Córdoba come near it, the difference being as great as that between day and night. They said that all those lands were tilled, and that through the middle of that valley passed a river, very wide and great, that could water all the lands. All the trees were green and full of fruit, and the grasses all in flower and very tall; the roads very wide and good; the airs were like April in Castile; …