[The Life of Christopher Columbus from his own Letters and Journals by Edward Everett Hale]@TWC D-Link book
The Life of Christopher Columbus from his own Letters and Journals

CHAPTER IV
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And they bartered them with us for other things, which we gave them, such as little glass beads and little bells.

In short, they took everything, and gave of what they had with good will.

But it seemed to me that they were a people very destitute of everything.
"They all went as naked as their mothers bore them, and the women as well, although I only saw one who was really young.

And all the men I saw were young, for I saw none more than thirty years of age; very well made, with very handsome persons, and very good faces; their hair thick like the hairs of horses' tails, and cut short.

They bring their hair above their eyebrows, except a little behind, which they wear long, and never cut.


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