‘They bear no arms, nor know thereof; for I showed them swords and they grasped them by the blade and cut themselves through ignorance. They have no iron.’ Thus wrote Christopher Columbus of the first natives he encountered in the New World on 12 October 1492. Arriving in the Bahamas on board one of three lightly armed ships widely used in voyages of exploration, Columbus reached a part of the world unknown to the ancients.
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