The young Taíno king dines aboard, believing the Spaniards come from heaven

… And the trees there, he says, were so lush that the leaves ceased to be green and were dark with greenness. It was a thing of wonder to see those valleys and the rivers and good waters, and the lands for bread, for livestock of every kind, of which they have none, for gardens and for all the things in the world that man could know to ask for. Afterward in the evening the king came to the ship: the Admiral did him the honor that was due, and had him told how he was of the Sovereigns of Castile, who were the greatest Princes in the world. But neither the Indians the Admiral had with him, who were the interpreters, believed anything, nor the king either, but they believed that they came from heaven, and that the kingdoms of the Sovereigns of Castile were in heaven, and not in this world. They set before the king food of the things of Castile, and he ate a mouthful and afterward gave it all to his counselors and to the tutor, and to the others he had brought in with him. …