Early explorers described them as better built, polite, liberal, and of cheerful humor than the northern Indians.

One early explorer described it in terms of a Cretan labyrinth.

Early Spanish explorers described large and productive fields among the Opata.

Early explorers of the area described them as friendly and hospitable.

The explorers described a Noah's Ark of plenty: 178 plants and 122 animal species until then unknown to science.

In the 1870s, early white explorers described the Warumungu as a flourishing nation.

The noise from the landslide was so great that one explorer described it as the sound of an ammunition magazine exploding.

Early explorers described it as a Turkish bath.

The Portuguese explorers discovered the islands in 1456 and described the islands as uninhabited.

The first explorers described the native people of the islands as savages who ate human flesh.