If you take a cruise around New York you will get to know about the indigenous people living in the area you are visiting. Locals for ceremonial and warlike occasions decorated their faces with paint. The women wore decorated headbands, and a cloth around their bodies which was fastened by an ornamental girdle which extended to the knee. According to a Dutch description of 1609 about the locals, the men and the women have broad shoulders and slender waist. Both men and women have brown eyes and snow white teeth. In addition, the Dutch used native trails when they settled Manhattan. Lower Broadway was a natural north south route because it followed the line of the highest elevation, avoiding marshaland and stone outcroppings. The first explorers to reach New York were the descendants of the bands of hunters who first crossed the bering Land bridge from Siberia to Alaska about 25,000 years ago. In time they settled in every region of this vast continent shaping its landscape which was used, occupied and named. Between the 8th and the 11th century the native inhabitants encountered Swedes, Norwegians and Danes who had created a first distant settlement on Iceland in the nineth century. From Iceland the Norse added two settlements in Greenland and from Greenland they came to the New World.