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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Archeopteryx: [QB] If you like to discuss Columbus and the color of the people he met, here are some quotes. He mostly emphasises that the people he met were not black. [QUOTE] JOURNAL OF THE FIRST VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS This is the first voyage and the routes and direction taken by the Admiral Don Cristóbal Colon when he discovered the Indies, summarized; except the prologue made for the Sovereigns, which is given word for word and commences in this manner "[Friday, 12th of October] They paint themselves black, and they are the color of the Canarians, neither black nor white." "[Saturday, 13th of October] As soon as dawn broke many of these people came to the beach, all youths, as I have said, and all of good stature, a very handsome people. Their hair is not curly, but loose and coarse, like horse hair. In all the forehead is broad, more so than in any other people I have hitherto seen. Their eyes are very beautiful and not small, and themselves far from black, but the color of the Canarians. Nor should anything else be expected, as this island is in a line east and west from the island of Hierro in the Canaries." "[Monday, 22nd of October] Many of these people came, like those of the other islands, equally naked, and equally painted, some white, some red, some black, and others in many ways." "[Monday, 24th of December] All here have a loving manner and gentle speech, unlike the others, who seem to be menacing when they speak. Both men and women are of good stature, and not black. It is true that they all paint, some with black, others with other colors, but most with red. I know that they are tanned by the sun, but this does not affect them much." LETTER FROM COLUMBUS TO LUIS DE SANTANGEL "Down to the present, I have not found in those islands any monstrous men, as many expected, but on the contrary all the people are very comely; nor are they black like those in Guinea, but have flowing hair; and they are not begotten where there is an excessive violence of the rays of the sun." LETTER OF DR. CHANCA ON THE SECOND VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS A letter addressed to the Town Council of Seville by Dr. Chanca, a native of that city, and physician to the fleet of Columbus, on his second voyage to the Indies, describing the principal events which occurred during that voyage "When they wish to adorn themselves, both men and women paint themselves, some black, others white, and various colors, in so many devices that the effect is very laughable" NARRATIVE OF THE THIRD VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS AS CONTAINED IN LAS CASAS’S HISTORY May 30-August 31, 1498 "They were not as short as others he had seen in the Indies and they were whiter, and of very good movements and handsome bodies, the hair long and smooth and cut in the manner of Castile. They had the head tied with a large handkerchief of cotton, symmetrically woven in colors, which the Admiral believed to be the almaiçar;336-1 he says that others had this cloth around them, and they covered themselves with it in[337] place of trousers. He says that they are not black although they are near the equinoctial but of an Indian color like all the others he has found. " "....and that he thought to investigate the report of the Indians of this Española who said that there had come to Española from the south and south-east, a black people who have the tops of their spears made of a metal which they call guanin, of which he had sent samples to the Sovereigns to have them assayed, when it was found that of 32 parts, 18 were of gold, 6 of silver and 8 of copper." [/QUOTE]Also note that in the paragraph about guanin, he refers to hearsay. Also it does not mention anything about Africa. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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