I wished to give a complete relation to your Highnesses, and also where a fort might be built.... However, I do not see it to be necessary, because these people are simple in weapons.... With fifty men I could subjugate them all and make them do everything that is required of them. (Christopher Columbus)

I wished to give a complete relation to your Highnesses, and also where a fort might be built.... However, I do not see it to be necessary, because these people are simple in weapons.... With fifty men I could subjugate them all and make them do everything that is required of them.

Christopher Columbus

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