I saw no beasts in the island, nor any sort of animals except parrots. If it please our Lord, I intend at my return to carry home six of them to your Highnesses, that they may learn our language. They very quickly learn such words as are spoken to them. It appears to me, that the people are ingenious, and would be good servants and I am of opinion that they would very readily become Christians, as they appear to have no religion. I thought then, and still believe, that these were from the continent. These Amazing Christopher Columbus Quotes will boost your greatness and will motivate you. I saw some with scars of wounds upon their bodies, and demanded by signs the of them they answered me in the same way, that there came people from the other islands in the neighborhood who endeavored to make prisoners of them, and they defended themselves. Here we have a collection of antique Christopher Columbus Quotes. They are all of a good size and stature, and handsomely formed. ![]() They have no iron, their javelins being without it, and nothing more than sticks, though some have fish-bones or other things at the ends. Weapons they have none, nor are acquainted with them, for I showed them swords which they grasped by the blades, and cut themselves through ignorance. Some paint the face, and some the whole body others only the eyes, and others the nose. Some paint themselves with black, which makes them appear like those of the Canaries, neither black nor white others with white, others with red, and others with such colors as they can find. ![]() All whom I saw were young, not above thirty years of age, well made, with fine shapes and faces their hair short, and coarse like that of a horse's tail, combed toward the forehead, except a small portion which they suffer to hang down behind, and never cut. They all go completely naked, even the women, though I saw but one girl. ![]() But they seemed on the whole to me, to be a very poor people. Afterwards they came swimming to the boats, bringing parrots, balls of cotton thread, javelins, and many other things which they exchanged for articles we gave them, such as glass beads, and hawk's bells which trade was carried on with the utmost good will. “As I saw that they were very friendly to us, and perceived that they could be much more easily converted to our holy faith by gentle means than by force, I presented them with some red caps, and strings of beads to wear upon the neck, and many other trifles of small value, wherewith they were much delighted, and became wonderfully attached to us.
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