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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: a-scrambling! This cacique had never seen an animal larger
than a fox or a dog, Yet he stood with steadiness, though
his glance shot here and there. The stallion was restless
and fiery-eyed; the bull sent forth a bellow. ``Why do they
come? What will they do here? Will you put them in the
forest? The people will be afraid to wander!''
He looked away to sky and sea and shore. ``It grows
toward night,'' he said. ``I will go back to my town.''
The Admiral said, ``I would first show you the Caribs,''
and took him there where they were bound. The Haytien
regarded them, but the Caribs were as contemptuously silent
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