Taken from The Log of Christopher Columbus (Part 3 of 4)
Tuesday, 15 January 1493
The bows of these people are as large as those in France and England. The arrows are just like the spears of the other people I have seen before, made fr...om cane stalks that have gone to seed. They are very straight and one-and-a-half or two yards long, and they place a sharpened stick in the end, a palm-and-a-half long. At the end of this little stick some of them insert a fish tooth, and most of them put poison on the tip. They do not shoot as in other places, but in a peculiar way that cannot do much harm. The bows seem to be made of yew.
Tuesday, 15 January 1493
The bows of these people are as large as those in France and England. The arrows are just like the spears of the other people I have seen before, made fr...om cane stalks that have gone to seed. They are very straight and one-and-a-half or two yards long, and they place a sharpened stick in the end, a palm-and-a-half long. At the end of this little stick some of them insert a fish tooth, and most of them put poison on the tip. They do not shoot as in other places, but in a peculiar way that cannot do much harm. The bows seem to be made of yew.
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