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  1. Jan 2025
    1. They do not carry arms and have no knowledge of them, for when I showed them the swords they took them by the edge and through ignorance cut themselves. They have no iron; their spears consist of staffs without iron, some of them having a fish’s tooth at the end and the others other things.

      It seems to me that the Native Americans were a peaceful tribe. They did not want to fight or cause any problems with their new visitors. This passage says that they cut themselves on the swords because they have never seen anything like this before. That makes me think about new inventions that are being designed to this day. This tribe was shown something that they thought was interesting