After sailing half a league across the bay I sighted a most excellent harbour.… We anchored, and…[g]oing in the boats to the south of the harbour mouth, I found a river which a galley could row into comfortably.… The beauty and freshness of the river, so clear that we could see the sand on the bottom; all the various sorts of palm tree, taller and more beautiful than any I have encountered before; the endless variety of other trees, so tall and green; the birds; the greenness of the level ground—all this made me want to stay here forever.