October 12, 1492
Bartolomé
de las Casas recounting Columbus telling the Spanish Crown his belief in
converting the Indians through love instead of sheer force:
14. They have no iron; their javelins are a kind
of staff without an iron point, but some of them have a fish's tooth on the
end, and others, other things.
A
Synoptic Log of Columbus's First Voyage, ed. and trans. Francesca Lardicci,
Valeria Bertolucci Pizzorusso, Cynthia L. Chamberlain, and Blair Sullivan
(Turnhout: Brepols, 1999), 48
c.
October 12, 1492:
*f.[FH,14.] The natives had no weapons, except that there
were some javelins, which are staffs with the points fired and sharpened, or
some of them with a fish's tooth or bone on the end, which they used for
fishing rather than killing any person, . . .
A
Synoptic Log of Columbus's First Voyage, ed. and trans. Francesca Lardicci,
Valeria Bertolucci Pizzorusso, Cynthia L. Chamberlain, and Blair Sullivan
(Turnhout: Brepols, 1999), 197
