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Show Oeh'cved Visitors Celestial. Of the natives oi the Islands Columbus Colum-bus wrote: "These people practice no bind of idolatry; on the contrary they firmly believe that all strength and power, am! in feet all good things are in heaven, and that I had come down from ihenee witli these ships and sailors; sail-ors; and in this belief I was received t' ere after they had put aside fear. Nor are I hey slow or unskilled, but of excellent and acute understanding; and tlie men who have navigated that sea give an account of everything in an admirable manner; but they never saw p.ople clothed, nor this kind of One island, which Columbus called M.iteunin, probably Martinique, he believed be-lieved to be inhabited only by women. "These women," he said, "perform no kind of work of their sex, for they use hows and darts; they protect themselves with sheets of copper, 'i'liey tell of another island, whose inhabitants in-habitants are without hair, and which abounds in gold above all others." |
