 Aboard these ships he found a strange feather headdress and an unfamiliar black stone.He was told by one of his prisoners that both came from newly discovered lands to the west, beyond the Atlantic Ocean.The prisoner claimed to have visited these lands three times, under the command of a man named Colombo, and that he had in his possession a chart, drawn by this Colombo himself, which showed the newly discovered lands beyond the "Sea of Darkness".