The Life of the Admiral Christopher Columbus, by his son, Ferdinand.

I am a bookoholic. Actually, I am more addicted to buying books than reading them, but sometimes I actually do open them up and start figuring out what they said! In fact, I have about 8 books that I feel obligated to read before I start buying again. The above book I bought just to find one quote showing that the Flat Earth Theory was unknown during the time of Columbus. It was in fact invented by Washington Irving for his novel about Columbus in the 19th century, but malicious scholars managed to get this retarded story into the textbooks used in the government schools when I was growing up.

Here is some more of what caught my attention regarding the Indians:

"They are such an affectionate and generous people, and so tractable, that I assure Your Highnesses there are no better people or land in all the world. They love their neighborrs as themselves, and their speech is the sweetest and gentles in the world, and they always speak with a smile." - Chapter 33. Here, Ferdinand is quoting a letter from his father, Christopher. This passage is a wonderful bit of support for the notion of the Noble Savage, but something that seems to directly contradict the Christian notion of the Doctrine of Total Depravity.

Then there is this:

"Moved by their pleas, the sailors again brought them aboard from the Caribs. For those people felt themselves more secure in the hands of men whom they had never seen before and who differed so greatly from themselves than among those wicked, cruel men who had eaten their children and husbands. It is said that Caribs do not eat or kill women, but keep them as slaves." - Chapter 47.

There is a footnote claiming that modern anthropologists doubt this passage, but I suspect that this has more to do with modern political correctness rather than actual evidence to the contrary. The alternative explanation is that the Caribs killed, dismembered, and kept the bones of their victims as trophies. Is the alternative really any better?