Christopher Columbus — "The people here are very timid, and are all naked, men and women, as their mothe…"
The people here are very timid, and are all naked, men and women, as their mothers bore them; and they have no weapons, nor know them, for I showed them swords, and they took them by the edge and cut themselves through ignorance. They have no iron. Their javelins are without iron, and some of them have a fish's tooth at the end, and others have other things. They are all of good stature, with good bodies and faces, and not black but tawny, like the Canary Islanders, and with straight hair.
