No. 2 As, Awed to Silence, Savage Lands Gave Place, And Hail’d With Joy the Sun-Descended Race
Book I. Line 243.
The original inhabitants of Hispaniola were worshippers of the sun. The Europeans, when they first landed there, were supposed by them to be gods, and consequently descended from the sun. See the subject of solar worship treated more at large in a subsequent note.